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Putting Lincoln back together again
February 23, 2009

Henry Duffy, Curator and Chief Cultural Resources for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, sits next to one of the 23 pieces of a 12 foot tall plaster cast of an Abraham Lincoln
statue that has been closed in a box for 45 years. "It's a wonderful national treasure," Duffy said. "I will be very excited to get him out of here and healthy."

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Putting Lincoln back together again

Putting Lincoln back together again

In Chicago, a 12-foot-tall Abraham Lincoln rises from his chair, left hand on his lapel, watching people pass through Lincoln Park. In Cornish, where the original statue was sculpted, a cast of the same larger-than-life figure has been stored in a warehouse, sequestered for decades. This Lincoln, however, is in 23… 1

February 23, 2009
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