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Title

  • The Lincoln/Obama inaugural Bible collection.

Other Title

  • Lincoln Obama inaugural Bible collection
  • Lincoln Bible
  • Obama Bible

Created / Published

  • Kansas City : Andrews McMeel, [2009]
  • ©2009

Contents

  • [Invitation to the January 20, 2009, presidential inauguration] -- Inauguration ceremonies program -- Inauguration day prayer service -- Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863.

Headings

  • -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Inaugurations
  • -  Obama, Barack--Inaugurations
  • -  Presidents--United States--Inauguration

Notes

  • -  Includes a facsimile of the Lincoln Bible, the Bible with which President Abraham Lincoln took his oath of office on March 4, 1861, held by the Library of Congress. This Bible was used by President Barack Obama for his oath of office on both January 20, 2009 and on January 21, 2013. The facsimile includes the inscription by William Thomas Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, certifying that the Bible was used in the ceremony in 1861, with the blue paper seal of the court.
  • -  The collection is issued in a clamshell box. The Bible facsimile is bound in velvet and fits into the base of the box; the pamplets are held in a folder attached to the top of the box.

Medium

  • 67 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • 1280 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm
  • 4 pamphlets : illustrations ; 21-24 cm
  • 1 box ; 26 x 21 x 10 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BS185 1853 .O9a

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015656339

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division

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Chicago citation style:

The Lincoln/Obama inaugural Bible collection. [Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, ©, 2009] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015656339/.

APA citation style:

(2009) The Lincoln/Obama inaugural Bible collection. [Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015656339/.

MLA citation style:

The Lincoln/Obama inaugural Bible collection. [Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, ©, 2009] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015656339/>.