Talk:Chicago History Museum

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I added the part about the postcard collection from the Chicago Postcard Museum to show that future additions are in place for the Museum. Bubbles05 (talk) 17:10, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Replaced sources for the Emancipation Proclamation draft
A 2003 National Geographic article, "The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice", states that Lincoln's own final copy of the Emancipation Proclamation was inside the Chicago Soldiers' Home when the Soldiers' Home was destroyed in the 1871 fire. But the Soldiers' Home building did not burn (and still exists in the same spot), and the document was not even there at the time: the Chicago Collections Consortium states that the document had been "placed" at the Chicago Historical Society and was on exhibition there when the CHS building burned to the ground in the fire. (Also Cornell Library: "There were once two copies of the Emancipation Proclamation in Lincoln’s handwriting: a preliminary and a final copy. The final copy was acquired by the Chicago Historical Society, where it burned in the 1871 Chicago Fire.") I'd first given the Nat Geo article as a source, then replaced it with the Chicago Collections page that lists the Chicago History Museum's Lincoln papers and describes the route the document took. Fishlandia (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2017 (UTC)