Many artifacts connected to Abraham Lincoln are about to leave the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth for the first time for display at the St. Louis University Museum of Art.Beginning today, they will be displayed at the St. Louis University Museum of Art through December 17th. The items include a ceremonial copy of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned slavery.
The copy bears the signatures of Lincoln and 36 members of the U.S. Senate.
The Bernard Hall Abraham Lincoln Collection is housed in St. Mary’s De Paul Library. Hall, then a clinical psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, donated it to the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth in 1969.
About three-fourths of the approximately 225 artifacts to be exhibited in St. Louis will come from the Leavenworth collection.
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