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Odds and Ends – Lincoln

Date

1923-08

Type

reference

Era

Early Expansion · 1912

Rotary Magazins

A 1937, February, photo from The Rotarian of Harris placing a wreath on the grave of American president Abraham Lincoln.

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August 1923 Rotary Memorial to US President Lincoln (Presented at the 1923 St. Louis Convention)

Magazine page featuring the 1923 article "Rotary Memorial Tribute to Lincoln," with an enlarged Brady portrait of Lincoln and two bronze Rotary medals struck for the Springfield ceremony

Photo of Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, a tall obelisk monument surrounded by trees and terraced steps with statues

Scanned magazine page continuing "Rotary Memorial Tribute to Lincoln," describing the 1923 wreath-laying ceremony at Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, with remarks by Rotary leaders Doyle and Dr. Rogers on service and liberty, and international delegates joining in the tribute

Springfield IL Medal (seen in article above)

Brass medal reading Rotary Club Springfield Illinois, with Rotary International wheel emblem in center

Birthplace of Lincoln

World War I Memorial at Easton PA

Plaque reading "This Memorial Grove to Our Soldier Dead of the World War from The Rotary Club, Easton Pa., Dedicated May 1922" above a boulder marker inscribed "John B. Lynch," set in a grove of trees

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