Auction puts local library in national news!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:27 pm
You may have heard about an original handwritten manuscript of Lincoln's 1864 re-election address being auctioned off by Christie's in New York, yesterday. The Southworth Library in Dryden (Ithaca's eastern neighbor) was the seller of that document and is benefiting to the tune of $3 million! Pretty cool! 
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article ... NEWSFRONT2
Hmmm, the online version of article is missing a lot of details that appeared on the second page of that in the print edition. Here's a link to a version of that from the Syracuse Post-Standard, which is complete:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf? ... xml&coll=1
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article ... NEWSFRONT2
Hmmm, the online version of article is missing a lot of details that appeared on the second page of that in the print edition. Here's a link to a version of that from the Syracuse Post-Standard, which is complete:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf? ... xml&coll=1