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CHAPTER 4:
State Management of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial

NOTES

1. Intra-Departmental Memorandum, Richard E. Bishop to A. V. Bailey, November 11, 1942, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, State Maintenance of Memorial.

2. Ibid.

3. O. V. Brown Collection, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division, Manuscripts Division, Indianapolis. Some of the footstones are now in the Lincoln Boyhood museum collection. They will be returned to the cemetery.

4. Invoice, Tri-State Structural Painting Co. to Indiana State Parks, Land and Waters, January 19, 1953, Park files, Grounds, Flagstaff.

5. K. L. Bain to Indiana State Parks, July 2, 1953, Park files, Grounds, Flagstaff.

6. Robert D. Starrett to files, April 17, 1957; and handwritten note, K. R. Cougill to R. D. Starrett, October 1, 1961; Park files, Grounds, Exhibit Shelter.

7. Robert D. Starrett to files, September 7, 1962; and K. R. Cougill to Horace Weber and Elmer Stien [sic], October 10, 1962, Park files, Grounds, Flagstaff.

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

9. J. I. Holcomb to K. R. Cougill, February 9, 1956, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Memorial Drinking Fountain, 1956.

10. J. I. Holcomb to Frank C. Ball, January 24, 1940, Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s.

11. Richard E. Bishop to Richard Lieber, November 24, 1945; Richard Lieber to Virgil Simmons, November 15, 1942; E. H. Daniels to Richard Lieber, November 15, 1942; Richard Lieber to E. H. Daniels, November 17, 1942; Richard Lieber to Frances Brown, December 30, 1942; and Frank C. Ball to Richard Lieber, January 7, 1943;, all in Lieber/ILU Papers; Richard E. Bishop to Richard Lieber, November 24, 1942, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, State Maintenance of Memorial; and J. I. Holcomb to K. R. Cougill, January 18, 1956, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Abraham Lincoln Hall Organ.

12. Handwritten note, J. I. Holcomb, June 14, 1951; K. R. Cougill to J. I. Holcomb, July 12, 1951; and handwritten note R. D. Starrett to K. R. Cougill, n.d., all in Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Abraham Lincoln Hall Organ.

13. Handwritten note, R. D. Starrett, n.d.; and copy of Hammond Catalog and order form, in Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Abraham Lincoln Hall Organ.

14. Handwritten note, R. D. Starrett to K. R. Cougill, January 21, 1956, Park files, Memorial Building Visitor Center, Abraham Lincoln Hall Organ.

15. National Geographic CI No. 2 (February 1952).

16. K. R. Cougill to Eugene Ayer, August 5, 1959, Park files, Lincoln Related Organizations: Lincoln Club of Southern Indiana.

17. Preliminary program, Lincoln Memorial Program, n.d., Park files, Special Events, Lincoln Sesquicentennial.

18. K. R. Cougill to Henry Prange, November 4, 1957, Park files, Grounds, 1959 Marking of Lincoln Farm Corners. The action was proposed in 1957, but not accomplished until 1959.

19. John Varner, interview by John Santosuosso, June 18, 1970, Park files, Oral History Interviews.

20. E. K. Marlin to Roy T. Combs, August 29, 1957; and K. R. Cougill to Roy T. Combs, November 4, 1957; Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Museum onto the Memorial Building.

21. Handwritten note, R. D. Starrett, May 11, 1959; and Henry C. Prange to Colonel Marlin, November 21, 1957, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Museum onto the Memorial Building.

22. Indianapolis Star, August 7, 1958, Clippings files, Indiana Biography, Abraham Lincoln, 1950—1959, Indiana State Library.

23. See [Roy T. Combs], "Open Memo to the Educational Leaders of the State of Indiana," (Indiana Lincoln Foundation, Indianapolis, n.d., Typescript), and Indianapolis Star, May 9, 1959, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Museum onto the Memorial Building.

24. Interdepartmental Memo, Henry C. Prange to R. D. Starrett, June 11, 1959, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Parking Area by the Cabin Site.

25. Ibid.

26. Handwritten note, R. D. Starrett to K. R. Cougill, June 2, 1959, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Museum onto the Memorial Building.

27. Indianapolis Times, February 11, 1959, Goshen, Indiana, News—Democrat, February 12, 1959; and Evansville Press, February 29, 1959, all in Indiana Lincoln Foundation Scrapbooks, Indiana State Library.

28. Indianapolis Star, February 28, 1959, Indiana Lincoln Foundation Scrapbooks, Indiana State Library.

29. Evansville Courier, March 24, 1959; and Tell City News, March 27, 1959, Indiana Lincoln Foundation Scrapbooks, Indiana State Library.


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