Extra Credit Questions

[Rob Wick]

Thanks Eva. I may consider it for next year. Right now I've got about 2,500 more newspaper articles to go through regarding Ida Tarbell. Plus, my flatboat is in the shop.

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Rob

[RJNorton]

Can you name all the people, left to right?

[Rob Wick]

James Swanson, Mike Kauffman, Elizabeth Leonard, Ed Steers, Thomas Reed Turner and Frank J. Williams at, I think, the Lincoln Forum.

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Rob

[RJNorton]

You are very close, Rob. All your answers are correct except the lady is not Elizabeth Leonard.

[Rob Wick]

I kind of wondered about that. My eyes are not in the best shape today as I've been going through about four years of Ida Tarbell's copyright woes, so I'll have to concede as to her identity.

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Rob

[L Verge]

The lady is Louise Taper, and she was recovering from eye problems that year when she gave a slide presentation of her extensive Lincoln and Lincoln assassination collection at the annual conference of The Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg. Louise and I corresponded for years after we were introduced to each other by James O. Hall. She became another of his "adopted daughters." A very lovely and generous lady.

[RJNorton]

Congratulations, Rob and Laurie. You both win a free one hour shopping spree at your nearest Montgomery Ward's store.

[Joe Di Cola]

If you would like to see a lot of the things that are (were) in the Taper collection, get a copy of THE LAST BEST HOPE ON EARTH, published by the Huntinbgton Library.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Mary Harlan played the harp, Willie the piano, Ward Lamon the banjo, Robert at least tried the latter, but one of Abraham Lincoln's acquaintances played the violin. This person's grandson became a concert violinist and conductor who was the first violinist to make recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company (that one with the fox terrier and the gramophone), but they were never released.

Who was Lincoln's acquaintance (the grandfather)?

[RJNorton]

Eva, I never get your questions on the first try, but this time may be different - I think it's Frederick Douglass.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Excellent, Roger - this was a sacred effort. Here's a picture of him listening to his grandson Joseph:

   

Your prize is #4 from the top:

http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL509ED6E8551FDE01

I've sometimes read (on websites) that Lincoln played the Jew's harp on the Eighth Circuit, but I've never seen a source or read it in any book. Does anyone know more?

[RJNorton]

This is Carl Sandburg drawn by what artist?

[Rob Wick]

Roger,

It was Romaine Proctor from Thomas's Portrait For Posterity.

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Rob

[RJNorton]

You got it, Rob. Very good. You and Gene had mentioned that book in another thread, and I got the book off the shelves and scanned the image of Sandburg on p. 287.

[RJNorton]

What is the name of this building?