Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet and 2 document boxes & 1 mapcase drawer
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abraham Lincoln Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Background
- Scope and Content:
This is an artificial collection comprising letters, document, portraits, and object for various RBML manuscript collections. The source of each item is noted after its description.
- Processing information:
Materials in this collection were assembled from other collections at RBML. Note has been added in most of the original collections to guide researchers to this collection.
- Arrangement:
In four series
- Accruals:
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Names:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is located on-site.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abraham Lincoln Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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6th Floor East Butler Library535 West 114th St.New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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(212) 854-5590rbml@library.columbia.edu