Lincoln Boyhood Administrative History

NOTES

1. See Jill M. York, Friendly Trees, Hallowed Ground: An Expression of Sentiment and Reason (Omaha: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, 1984), 19—20.

2. Paul Brown to Thomas Hibben, September 10, 1927, State Parks—State Memorials Files, Indiana State Archives.

3. Paul Brown to Thomas Hibben, February 1, 1930, State Parks—State Memorials Files.

4. Indianapolis Star, n.d. [circa 1937.]

5. J. I. Holcomb to Richard Lieber, January 29, 1939, Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

6. Richard Lieber to Frederick Law Olmsted, June 13, 1938. Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

7. Ibid.

8. J. I. Holcomb to Richard Lieber, May 23, Lieber/ILU Papers, Indiana. 1939.

9. [Richard E. Bishop,] "Architect's Report to the Indiana Lincoln Union, Executive Committee" (Indianapolis, Indiana Lincoln Union, January 21, 1941, Typescript), 1—2.

10. Ibid., 2.

11. Richard Lieber to Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., July 26, 1938, Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

12. "Architect's Report", 2—3.

13. Richard E. Bishop to Richard Lieber, December 14, 1939. Lieber/ILU Papers.

14. Paul Brown to Richard Lieber and J. I. Holcomb, December 15, 1939. Lieber/ILU Papers.

15. "Architect's Report," 3.

16. Richard Lieber to Thomas J. Allen, Jr., January 16, 1940. Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

17. Thomas J. Allen, Jr., to Richard Lieber, January 22, 1940. Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

18. "Architect's Report," 3.

19. Ibid., 5.

20. Ibid., 6—7.

21. Ibid., 7—8.

22. Richard E. Bishop to Richard Lieber, August 20, 1947, Lieber/ILU Papers; Clippings files, Indiana Biography, Abraham Lincoln, 1930—1939, Indiana State Library; and [Bishop,] handwritten note, n.d., Lieber/ILU Papers.

23. Handwritten note, Lieber/ILU Papers; "Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting, Indiana Lincoln Union and Indiana Department of Public Works, November 16, 1940, Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s; Richard E. Bishop to Richard Lieber, March 5, 1941; and Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial (Indianapolis, Indiana Lincoln Union, 1944).

24. [Paul V. Brown,] "Secretary's Report" (Indiana Lincoln Union, Indianapolis, January 5, 1942, Typescript), Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center Sculptured Panels, Panel and Bust Sculpting.

25. Ibid.; and Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 54.

26. J. I. Holcomb to Richard Lieber, October 29, 1938, Lieber/ILU Papers.

27. Richard Lieber to J. I. Holcomb, January 5, 1939, Lieber/ILU Papers.

28. J. I. Holcomb to Richard Lieber, January 3, 1959, Lieber/ILU Papers.

29. "Secretary's Report; and Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 54—55.

30. Employment agreement, Department of Conservation, August 4, 1941, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Sculptured Panels, Panel and Bust Sculpting. Records of payments show Daniels ultimately received $25,000 for the project. See Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Sculptured Panels, Panel and Bust Sculpting.

31. Invoice/Voucher, State of Indiana, February 16, 1942. Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Sculptured Panels, Panel and Bust Sculpting.

32. "Secretary's Report;" and Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 57.

33. Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 57; and E. H. Daniels to Hugh Barnhart, January 14, 1943; and Hugh Barnhart to E. H. Daniels, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Sculptured Panels, Panel and Bust Sculpting.

34. Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 55—59.

35. Richard E. Bishop, "Minutes of the Sculpture Committee" (Indiana Lincoln Union, Indianapolis, January 7, 1942, Typescript); and Hugh Barnhart to E. H. Daniels, January 8, 1942, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Sculptured Panels.

36. Bishop, The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, 31—39.

37. U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, "The Sculptured Panels of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial" (n.p., n.d., Flier).

38. Richard E. Bishop to Milton Matter, March 13, 1946, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, State Maintenance of Memorial.

39. See York, Friendly Trees, Hallowed Ground for a full discussion of the Nott plantings.

40. Indianapolis Star, February 12, 1942, Clippings files, Indiana Biography, Abraham Lincoln, 1940—1949, Indiana State Library.

41. Hugh Barnhart, press release, January 24, 1944, Clippings files, Indiana Biography, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Indiana State Library.