Subj:.....Lincoln Discoveries (S599)           From: News.AOL.com on 7/5/2008 Source: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/vanished-lincoln- bust-baffles-historians/20080704164209990001

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SCRANTON, Pa. (July 4) - Few of the 3,000 historic postcards in Jack Hiddlestone's collection are as veiled in mystery as the one with Abraham Lincoln on the front.

The postcard, from 1909, depicts an ornate stone pillar decked out with bronze eagles and lions and topped by an enormous bronze bust of the nation's 16th president. Along the bottom of the card are the words "Lincoln Monument, Nay Aug Park."

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Historians say this postcard and other documents confirm that a 16-foot monument to Abraham Lincoln once stood in Nay Aug Park in Scranton, Pa. It was dedicated on July 4, 1909, but in the early decades of the 20th century, it simply vanished.
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The next seventeen photos are more Lincoln discoveries.

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In one of Abraham Lincoln's letters unveiled to the public by the University of Rochester in December, the president laid out a plan to end the Civil War. He wanted the government to pay states about $400 for each slave and states in turn to set a 20-year deadline for abolishing slavery.
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Lincoln's proposal never took root. Two months later he issued what became the Emancipation Proclamation that put an end to slavery. The memo at bottom center, among the university's collection, was signed by Lincoln on the day he was assassinated, April 14, 1865.
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There have been several Lincoln discoveries of late. This image is one of three found at the Library of Congress on Jan. 4 showing Lincoln's second inauguration. Very few photos of Lincoln exist.
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This is another of the newly discovered images, which had been mislabeled as being from another event until a photography curator discovered the mistake.
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Until curator Carol Johnson's discovery, there were only two photos of the inauguration that were known to exist. In this one, Lincoln, who is at the center of the photo, delivers his address from the Capitol's east portico.
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This other previously known image shows crowds at the event.
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An illustration depicts Lincoln, left, being sworn in for his second term. He was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington the following month.
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The finding at the Library of Congress marks the second time in the last year that new photos related to Lincoln have emerged. This photo, taken in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1863, shows Lincoln in his stovepipe hat, an amateur historian said.
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This is a wider version of the same photo and shows the figure believed to be Lincoln in the center rear of the crowd. The picture was taken the day Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg address.
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This is the full version of the Gettysburg photo. The historian zoomed in tight and found what appeared to be Lincoln on horseback in the upper left, though the figure cannot be detected from this far out.
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John Richter, the historian, said he also found what he thinks is Lincoln in a digitized version of this image. Only about 130 photos of Lincoln are known to exist.
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This photograph taken by Mathew Brady was previously the only known photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg. His face can be seen in the center of the photo. It was taken after he delivered his speech, regarded as one of the greatest in U.S. history.
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In August, laser scans of two masks made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face revealed the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry.
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The study found the left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right. His contemporaries had said his left eye also drifted up independent of his right eye.
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In June 2007, this 1863 note penned by President Lincoln during the Civil War was unveiled. An archivist found it tucked in a drawer at the National Archives. "The rebellion will be over" if only "Gen. Meade can complete his work," Lincoln wrote to Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck. The Civil War continued for two more years.
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The U.S. Mint plans to redesign the Lincoln penny in 2009 to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 100th anniversary of the penny's debut. Above are four designs under consideration for the back of the coin. The top left image depicts Lincoln as a student; the top right one shows him as an Illinois legislator.
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When the coin is redesigned, Lincoln's profile will remain on the front of the coin.    Sources: Library of Congress, AP, USA Today