ALLM Museum Research Collections
Introduction
The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum Mission Statement:
The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum (ALLM) is dedicated to identifying, preserving, and making available the collections concerning Abraham Lincoln, his contemporaries, the American Civil War, and the study of Lincolniana. The ALLM promotes public awareness and appreciation of the life of the 16th President, the field of Lincolniana, and the themes and forces that contributed to the era of conflict of the Civil War. The ALLM supports the research needs of LMU faculty, staff, students as well as the community and general researchers. The ALLM promotes awareness through workshops, seminars, forums, courses, outreach programs, and research opportunities for individuals and groups to examine the collections.
The ALLM recognizes that it holds its collections in trust for the Nation. The ALLM is committed to maintaining the professional and ethical standards as set forth by the American Association of Museums and Society of American Archivists. The ALLM recognizes its responsibility to ensure the growth, development, use, and care of the collections in its care. The ALLM further recognizes its responsibility to prevent the loss of collections by deterioration, mismanagement, or indiscriminate dispersal.
Scope of Collections
The ALLM collections are dedicated to the enduring memory and influence of the Nation’s 16th President Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War as reflected in the Mission Statement. The ALLM collections consist of artifacts, photographs, and papers relating to the life and context of Abraham Lincoln including his early years in Kentucky, his formative years in Indiana, his time in Illinois, his local and national political career and his family; Lincolniana also know as Lincoln related art and printed material including popular, mass produced items for public consumption, and commissioned pieces created by professional artists for public display. These pieces reflect the cultural memory of Abraham Lincoln in American society and anywhere around the world where his image, name, and influence is recognized. Civil War military history focusing on the Appalachian theater of the U.S. Civil War; the materials center on Lincoln’s interest in the upland-south region and its pro-union sympathizes.
*Some of the collections listed are on ArchiveSpace while others are still being added to the site.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1800 - 2025
Extent
100 Legal-sized Hollinger Box
Language of Materials
English
The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum Collections
A to Z Papers and Manuscripts Collection
Lincoln Collections
Abraham Lincoln Collection
-Abraham Lincoln Collection: Family Papers
-Abraham Lincoln Collection: Legal Series
-Abraham Lincoln Collection: Personal Papers
-Assassination Objects Collection
-Calendar Collection
-Gettysburg Address Collection
-Lincoln Biographers and Contemporaries
-Lincoln's Cabinet Members Collection
-Lincoln Highway Collection
-Lincoln in Advertising Collection
-Lincoln Migration Papers
-Mourning Artifacts Collection
Philately Collection
Civil War Collections
-Civil War Broadside Collection
-Civil War Correspondence
-Civil War Newspaper Collection
-Civil War Scrapbook Collection
-Civil War Sheet Music Collection
Cumberland Gap Byrnes Collection
Diary Collection
Film Collection
Hall of Holography - The Hall of Holography Collection was established at Lincoln Memorial University in October 1934 by Dr. John Wesley Hill, Chancellor of the University. The nucleus of the collection was a gift from Dr. Thomas F. Madigan, who had spent over 20 years collecting and selling autographs. After Dr. Hill's death, Dr. Robert Stanley McCordock, of the Department of History and Citizenship, took responsibility for the collection and its expansion, assisted for several years by Audrey Coulter, class of 1939. Under Dr. McCordock's leadership the collection grew to include items from over 1300 people, all of whom were identified and contacted without today's convenience of the Internet.
Household Furnishing Collections
Mary Todd Lincoln Theatre Collection
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)
Movies, Radio and TV Collection
Phonograph Collection
Political Cartoons Collection
Political Ticket Collection
Postcard Collection
Presidential Novelty Card Collection
Professional Reference Collection
Stereograph Collection
United States Presidents Collection
Wilderness Road Collection
Personal Papers
Sarah Whiting Avery Collection
Kenneth Bernard Collection
Albert Bobrofsky Collection
Louis Bonhajo Collection
Carl Davis Collection
Betty Draper Collection
Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection
George B. Cockrell Collection - The George B. Cockrell Papers include correspondence, business papers (invoices, receipts, and bills of sale), and miscellaneous printed and handwritten items. The collection was presented to Lincoln Memorial University shortly after WWI by Major George B. Cockrell, C.S.A., who lived for a number of years at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, following the industrial development of 1890.
Dorothy Ellis Collection
George P. Hambrecht Collection
Oliver Otis Howard Collection - The O.O. Howard Collection contains letters of correspondence from Oliver Otis Howard to his uncle, John Otis (Representative from Maine to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig), written while he was a student at Bowdoin College (1850), and later while he was a cadet at West Point (1851); as well as correspondence by and with other members of his family, spanning the years up to October 30, 1909.
Robert L Kincaid Collection
R. J. LeFevre Watercolor Collection
Lockwood Collection
Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Lloyd D. Miller Collection
R. Gerald McMurtry Collection
Stephen T. McMurtry Collection
Lloyd Ostendorf Collection
Weldon Petz Collection
Sal Satinsky Collection
James Scatterfield Collection
Carl W. Schaefer Collection
Hal Seaberg Collection
Frank A Seiberling Collection
Max Shively Collection
Henry Spencer Collection
John W. Starr, Jr. Collection
James Stiner Collection
Dorothy Lamon Teillard Collection
Benjamin F. Trail Family Papers
Randle B. Truett Collection
Bernhardt Wall Collection
Charles E. West Family Collection
Julia S. Wheelock Papers
Whitney Family Papers - The “Whitney Family Papers” collection is a large compilation of letters and correspondence centered on Grove D. Whitney. Grove served in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, during which he sustained injuries that landed him in hospitals in Alexandria VA. He is also one of the longest living Civil War veterans, having lived until 1932.
Harry Wood Collection
John L. Worden Collection
Levi Worster Collection
Roy Blanton Wyatt Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum Repository
Lincoln Memorial Univesity
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
Harrogate Tennessee 37752 United States
archives@lmunet.edu