Downs and Welch Reading About Lincoln's Assassination | University of Illinois Archives
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Downs and Welch Reading About Lincoln's Assassination
Date:
circa Aug., 1968
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Caption accompanying image reads: "Sandburg's Library -- Two University of Illinois Library staff members at Urbana, Dean Robert B. Downs and Miss Helen Welch, acquisitions department head, examine a copy of the April 15, 1865 edition of The New York Herald, which reports the Abraham Lincoln assassination. the Newspaper was among the private library holdings of the late Illinois-born poet and writer Carl Sandburg, which are now part of the U. of I. Library collection."
Found in RS: 39/1/11, Box DO, Folder Downs, Robert
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Tiff
ID:
0001842
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University of Illinois Archives
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