Lincoln collection to Museum

A battered old hat, a pair of stained gloves, a child’s silly rhyme — hardly the stuff of history.

Except that this hat is a stovepipe hat, the gloves are stained with a president’s blood and the rhyme was written by a young Abraham Lincoln.

All three items are part of an immense private collection put together by a Lincoln fan over 35 years. Now the collection is about to go public after being purchased for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Posted by David on June 19, 2007 4:52 PM