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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies Hearses (Vehicles) Railroad cars Railroad trains
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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f early construction victories. And to insure that the countless day-by-day activities of operating the first railroads are not bypassed, the museum has collected miscellaneous items for display, such OS ticket punches, badges, telegraph keys, insulators, cable and other equipment, an old locomotive clock, train tickets and schedules, lanterns and many other articles of interest to the general public. PIONEERS REPRESENTED ... Western history could not be fairly representedwithout devoting space to the rugged pioneerfamilies who gave impetus to the need for aWestern railroad. Many of the tools and implements necessary tostay alive in that danger area have beenretired to the U. P. collection where visitors canexamine them and go away with a much betteridea of frontier life. A hugh sauerkraut stomper, a grain flail, abarley fork and a cradle scythe—all handmade and predominately of wood—clearlyshow the exhausting labor of pioneer living. The first rails help traceconstruction history
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.^ ;H;H;S;^ ^-^-——HIT- -fr- -, Jp» . . . tufts ofhuman hair. TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN ... Pride of the museums priceless collection is thedisplay honoring President Abraham Lincoln who,in 1 862, signed into law a bill creating the UnionPacific Railroad and authorizing that company tobuild what was to be the nations first transconti-nental railroad and telegraph line. Within the museum, the Lincolniana display isconsidered one of the most complete in the country.A large portion of one wall of the room is entirelytaken up by portraits and personal papers of theCivil War president. Among the photographs isone of three known to bear his autograph. The most prized original docu-ment is an executive order whichappointed Springer Harbaughdirector of the railroad on thea part of the government inOctober 1863. This particulardocument is one of the few whichhe signed Abraham Lincolnrather than A. Lincoln whichbecame his familiar signature. In 1864 a private railroadcarwas built for the president

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