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Torn Lincoln Paper at St. Lawrence U. Is Digitally Reunited With Other Half
By admin | February 13, 2010
Torn Lincoln Paper at St. Lawrence U. Is Digitally Reunited With Other Half
Call it a scholar’s birthday present to Abraham Lincoln. David J. Gerleman, an adjunct history professor at George Mason University, has digitially stitched together a torn document whose pieces are held by two different archives.
The lower half of document bearing President Lincoln’s signature is held at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, N.Y., while the upper half is at the Illinois State Archives, in Springfield. While the two pieces are still physically states apart, digital
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