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1. LINMUS_070703_002.JPG: Union Station Tourist Information Center
2. LINMUS_070703_025.JPG: Union Square Park
3. LINMUS_070703_029.JPG: The Abraham Lincoln Museum itself
4. LINMUS_070703_038.JPG: The only place you're allowed to take photographs inside the museum is in the plaza here. (As is the case in most places, the reasons for prohibiting photography elsewhere varied -- artifact protect, copyright protection, annoyance protection...)
5. LINMUS_070703_061.JPG: Various figures grace the White House facade. This is John Wilkes Booth.
6. LINMUS_070703_068.JPG: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass
7. LINMUS_070703_104.JPG: Abraham Lincoln: More books have been written about him than any figure in human history, with the possible exception of Jesus Christ. Nearly a century and a half after his death, he is admired on every continent, and his words spoken with reverence in nearly every language. Yet though universally recognized, Abraham Lincoln is far from universally understood. Even in life he seemed elusive, as contradictory in his personality as in his politics. To contemporaries, Lincoln appeared a man of many moods, at once a calculating fatalist and a melancholy comic; a teller of vulgar stories and the author of imperishable prose; a long suffering husband and a negligent spouse; a cunning politician and towering statesman. Worse, over time the very human Lincoln has been obscured by the marble icon. Statues may be impressive, but they are also lifeless. Beginning in Journey One, we invite you to experience Abraham Lincoln living. Enter the Indiana log cabin and meet a young man who is determined to make his way in a nation that is rapidly unmaking itself, Lincoln Cabin: It was a great folly to attempt to make anything out of his early life, the adult Lincoln told a campaign biographer in 1859. His story could be condensed into a single sentence -- "the short and simple annals of the poor." Abraham Lincoln began life on February 12, 1809 in a one room, dirt floored cabin near the Kentucky settlement of Hodgenville. Seven years old when his family moved from Kentucky to Indiana, the adult Lincoln recalled life in the Hoosier wilderness: "When first my father settled here, T'was when the frontier line; The panthers scream filled night with fear And the bears preyed on the swine." Frontier life was precarious, disease a constant companion, death a hovering presence. At the age of nine, Lincoln lost his mother. Many believe that this early loss helped spark Lincoln's lifelong bout with melancholy. The cabin you see here is in the style of log cabins from the time of Lincoln's youth. This is a re-creation of the cabin on display near Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana.
8. LINMUS_070703_109.JPG: Mrs. Lincoln's Attic is a play area for kids.
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Wikipedia Description: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum looks at the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War. Combining traditional scholarship with 21st century showmanship techniques, the popular museum continues to draw people from all over the world. It is located in Springfield, Illinois.

Record attendance:

Since its opening in April 2005, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum has ranked as North America's most visited presidential museum. In about six months the museum generated about $1,000,000. In less than twenty-one months, the museum received its one millionth visitor. In comparison, the second most visited presidential museum, the Clinton Library, received 800,000 visitors in its first two years of operation.

Awards:

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum has been recognized with two awards; a THEA Award for Creative Excellence, presented by the Themed Entertainment Association, and an award from The Lincoln Group of New York, for "being the greatest achievement in America to encourage the study and appreciation of Abraham Lincoln and the times in which he lived."

Museum exhibits:

The museum contains full-immersion "you-are-there" replicas of Lincoln's boyhood home, areas of the White House, the presidential box at Ford's Theater, and the settings of key events in Lincoln's life, as well as pictures, artifacts and other memorabilia. Original artifacts are changed from time to time, but the collection usually includes items like the original hand written Gettysburg Address, a signed Emancipation Proclamation, his glasses and shaving mirror, Mary Todd Lincoln's music box, items from her White House china, her wedding dress, and more.

One of the museum's permanent exhibits, Campaign of 1860, features "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert. In addition to its exhibits, the Lincoln Museum runs two specia ...More...
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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