The Waldo-Lincoln Collection
The Waldo-Lincoln collection was assembled by the first President of Western
Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo (1864-1939). Dr. Waldo had been a history
and economics professor at Albion College and was the first principal of the
Northern State Normal School in Marquette. In 1904 Dr. Waldo became the president
at Western State Normal School, the beginning of Western Michigan University.
The collection consists largely of printed books, pamphlets, and offprints
concerning Abraham Lincoln. Noteworthy items in this collection include the first
edition of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Photographs of Abraham Lincoln,
by Frederick Meserve (1911), and a reprint copy of the New York Herald, April
15, 1865 proclaiming that Lincoln was shot.
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