By WJBC Staff
SPRINGFIELD – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is launching a new project to digitize thousands of related images and documents.
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Illinois State Library, Lincoln library officials will be scanning and digitizing everything from rare and delicate photos of Lincoln to posters, memorabilia, and letters.
“What’s really going to be special about this is that it will be provided in such high resolution,” said ALPLM Spokesperson Chris Wills.
The project will likely take a couple of years, and all of the images will be available to the public on the Illinois Digital Archives website.
“We’ve got, of course, just pictures of the president, but also hundreds of posters related to him; for instance, the wanted poster, the reward poster, and of course all of the memorabilia that has been produced over the years,” added Wills.
The ALPLM museum is located in Springfield, Illinois, at 212 N. 6 St.
Blake Haas can be reached at Blake.Haas@Cumulus.com.
