Abraham Lincoln artifacts that were once in a museum are going up for auction The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction.

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...

MENNO, S.D. — Abraham Lincoln walked into the Menno High School gymnasium Wednesday night — not for a history lesson, but to ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but ...

An auction of precious Abraham Lincoln artifacts raised close to $8 million Wednesday, meaning a likely seven-figure windfall for a cash-strapped Springfield foundation that was selling part of ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.

Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction The gloves were the top-selling items, bringing in $1.52 million including the premium.

A pair of leather gloves worn by President Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination fetched $1.5 million at auction this week, part of a trove of relics from his life ...

A detail of June 11, 1858, correspondence from Abraham Lincoln to Chicago Tribune Publisher Joseph Medill at the Col. R. R. McCormick Research Center First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in ...

The foundation purchased a 1,540-item assemblage in 2007 from Louise Taper for the fledgling Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, ... This story has been shared 55,735 times. 55,735.