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Peter S. Weaver, Photo of Posed ...

Souvenir Photo From the Day of the Gettysburg Address

Original 1863 photo from glass plate, labeled “Culps Hill / Gettysburg” by Peter S. Weaver, ... Read More

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Ronald C. White, A Lincoln: A ...

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S. C. Jones, Reminiscences of the ...

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Charles Turzak, Lincoln: A Biography in ...

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Charles Turzak, Biography in Woodcuts of ...

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Carl Van Doren, Mutiny in January, ...

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P. S. Weaver, Photo of Posed ...

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Iowa Infantry at Reunion, Co. K. ...

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Abraham Lincoln, Autograph Note, Signed, Framed ...

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George Washington Signature, Free Frank with ...

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Charles Turzak, Benjamin Franklin, “I Love ...

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Lois Romano

An Inconvenient Widow

Airdate: 05/28/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Special Announcements

Alphonso Iannelli Abraham Lincoln Bust

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE:  Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the Iannelli bust is being replicated. The replica travelling to Paris! We are thrilled to play a small role in this ... Read More

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in today's Printer's Row neighborhood, the building is architect Howard Van Doren Shaw's very first design of a commercial building. The ... Read More