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New Gallery Explores Lincoln's Ties to Quincy
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) -- A new gallery lets visitors explore President Abraham Lincoln's ties to Quincy and its residents.

The Lincoln Gallery in the John Wood Mansion Visitors Center opens to the public on Sunday.

The exhibit includes 72 period photographs, paintings, lithographs and historical documents that have been reproduced as illustrations.

The displays will also feature China used by the Lincolns in the White House, a commission that Lincoln signed and keys to the original Mormon temple in Nauvoo.

There will also be artifacts related to Lincoln's assassination, including the key to the jail cell of a convicted co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth.

One section of the gallery focuses on Quincy couple Orville and Eliza Browning, who were close friends of Lincoln.

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04 07 10 by Newsroom
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