Prominent Brooklyn historian’s Lincoln collection to be auctioned
A leading Abraham Lincoln scholar’s extensive collection of images, documents and artwork pertaining to the nation’s 16th president is being auctioned in Manhattan later this month.
Harold Holzer’s collection will highlight Swann Galleries’ Sept. 27 auction of printed and manuscript Americana featuring American Revolution, Civil War and frontier material.
Holzer is an award-winning historian best known for his books on Lincoln and the Civil War. The 69-year-old Brooklyn native collected a trove of Lincoln material over the years, including an 1860 painting of the president before he grew a beard.
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