This internationally known collection of Lincolniana and related materials began in 1928 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as the Lincoln Historical Research Foundation, a department of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. The collection grew over the decades to include thousands of objects, 19th-century photographs, books, documents, and art related to Abraham Lincoln and his times. Then in 2008, t
he Lincoln Financial Foundation closed the Museum and donated the collection to the State of Indiana.
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