New exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield

Posted on July 29, 2024
“Picturing Lincoln” is free to visit, and the images are free to download. (Photo courtesy Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – More than a thousand photographic images of, and related to, Abraham Lincoln are online in a new exhibit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. And you don’t even have to travel to Springfield to see it.

“Picturing Lincoln” is free to visit, and the images are free to download.

The exhibit is, says ALPLM director Christina Shutt, “really our commitment to making history more accessible to people by putting some of our key Lincoln images online, just like we’ve done for many years with ‘The Papers of Abraham Lincoln.’ We’re really shifting to put things like images – things people may not have seen.”

The project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Illinois secretary of state’s office.

www.presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/picturinglincoln

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected]

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