"Nation Honors 'Honest Abe,' Jacksonville (Ill.) Courier, February 11, 1909

A Memorial Scrapbook

Made under the auspices of the Lincoln Centennial Memorial Committee, this scrapbook contains hundreds of articles about Lincoln collected from newspapers and magazines during the months leading up to February 12, 1909. As this article reports, President Theodore Roosevelt attended a special ceremony at Lincoln’s birthplace in Kentucky to mark the occasion.