Lincolniana

[ling-koh-nee-an-uh, -ah-nuh, ling-kuh-]

plural noun

1. materials pertaining to Abraham Lincoln, as objects, writings, or anecdotes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lincolniana¹

First recorded in 1920–25; Lincoln + -iana

Example Sentences

It was on view at a memorial for Jonathan Mann, a collector whose trove of rare letters, photographs, banners, ballots, ribbons, campaign songbooks and other sundry bits of Lincolniana is being acquired by the library.

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Lincolniana became a family devotion carried through five generations.

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The legislator’s widow sold it for $1 in 1958 to an antique store, where it was retrieved by James Hickey, a one-time state historian who was among the nation’s foremost Lincolniana experts.

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In a 2009 panel discussion about collecting Lincolniana sponsored by the presidential library in honor of Lincoln’s birth bicentennial, Taper recalled buying a note allegedly penned by President Lincoln.

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Does a collection of Lincolniana need five dozen playbills, letters and lithographs belonging to Junius Brutus Booth, the father of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, who died eight years before Lincoln became president?

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