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Updated: May 24, 2025 / 02:27 PM EDT CHICAGO (WGN) – A trove of historic artifacts and memorabilia associated with President Abraham Lincoln were auctioned off for nearly $8 million on Wednesday.

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Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By Associated Press Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET ...

An auction of precious Abraham Lincoln artifacts raised close to $8 million Wednesday, meaning a likely seven-figure windfall for a cash-strapped Springfield foundation that was selling part of ...

The entire sale of Lincoln artifacts and memorabilia totaled nearly $7.9 million Miniature photographs of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, ca 1860. Courtesy of Freeman's | Hindman, 2025.

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...