Lincoln: a sketch / Helen Nicolay -- The inception and history of the Lincoln Memorial, including an account of the Lincoln Memorial Commission -- Report of Commission of Fine Arts recommending site -- The architecture of the Lincoln Memorial / Henry Bacon -- The statue -- The interior decorations -- The memorial addresses -- The exterior decorations -- The landscape architectural treatment and the reflecting pool / Irving W. Payne -- The site of the Lincoln Memorial in West Potomac Park -- The foundations of the Lincoln Memorial / Douglas L. Weart -- Chronological history of the construction work -- Laying the corner stone -- Appropriations -- Contracts -- The dedication -- The administration and guarding of the Memorial -- The Arlington Memorial Bridge

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

History of the memorial and account of its construction, with a sketch of Lincoln by Helen Nicolay

Book, bound in cloth, with gold lettering and borders on front cover and spine

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