For fifty years, Jan Jacobi served as the head of a middle school and taught English. He recently published his third young adult book.
Welcome to the Friends of the Lincoln Collection
Our Vision and Mission
Vision
The Friends of the Lincoln Collection ensures Abraham Lincoln’s life and times, leadership, and his enduring values of unity, freedom, and integrity will continue to educate and enlighten current and future generations through our support of the stewardship of the incomparable and uniquely accessible Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.
Mission
The Friends of the Lincoln Collection supports the Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites and the Allen County Public Library of Fort Wayne in preserving, exhibiting, and promoting the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.
Join us at the Rolland Center
The Rolland Center for Lincoln Research blends rich historical artifacts with interactive technology to bring history alive at the Allen County Public Library in downtown Fort Wayne, IN. Free and open to the public year-round, the Center welcomes visitors from around the world. Come experience and explore this outstanding collection.
Engage with us
One collection. Two locations. More than thirty thousand artifacts.
The Lincoln Collection has something for everyone. Engage with leading scholars and public historians on a wide range of topics related to Abraham Lincoln’s life and times. Visit the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites to experience artifacts firsthand and see the past come to life. Explore our educational resources, designed to make educators’ work easier and students more engaged. Find out how you can help bring Lincoln’s story to life!
An Interview with Jan Jacobi
From the Collection Robert Lincoln Through the Lens
The photographs of Robert Lincoln capture him as a young man finding his way in the world and later at the height of his success.
An Interview with Wayne C. “Doc” Temple
An Interview with Wayne C. “Doc” Temple by Alan E. Hunter Dr. Wayne C. Temple, known affectionately as “Doc,” was editor-in-chief of The Lincoln Herald and in charge of the Department of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University from 1958 to...
The Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana (and its predecessor organization) have published this journal since 1929. Lincoln Lore has been acclaimed as one of the single best Lincoln journals available in the world today.
Membership and Donations
The important work of preserving the Lincoln Collection and making it accessible to the public is supported in major part by tax-deductible gifts.
It’s so good to remember these things. They weren’t just names in a book.
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