Historian donates notes on Lincoln photo

Sunday, October 5, 2014

CHICAGO -- It's one of the most famous Abraham Lincoln photographs, largely because no one knew the picture of the dead president lying in an open coffin existed for nearly a century until a 14-year-old boy found it.

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