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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Drawn by Gertrude Wurmb. Half-tone plate engraved by G. M. Lewis CHURCH OF ST. CATHERINE AND HENRY THE LIONS FOUNTAIN IN THE HAGEN MARK.T ment. But the building has a lightnessand a hint of gaiety which remind onethat Brunswick, lying just beyond theWestphalian border, is touched by thehappy spirit of the Harz and of Thurin-gia. And one has the impulse to climbthat lofty gable among the caryatides andallegorical statues, the volutes and obe-lisks and inscriptions, to search the hori-zon for the blunt profile of the Brocken.These two splendid structures stand as monuments of the citys wealth in theflourishing Hanseatic days when she con-trolled the main highway to the ports ofBremen and Hamburg and Liibeck.They symbolize as well the democraticideal that preferred poverty to oppression.In 1293 the people, led by the guilds,began their fight against a tyrannousgovernment. In consequence they weredeclared aufriihrerisch, or riotous, by theHanseatic League, and were repeatedly
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Drawn by Gertrude Wurmb. Half-tune plate engraved by C. W. Chadwick THE FRONT OF ST. ANDREWS, AS SEEN FROMTHE WEBERSTRASSE placed under the commercial ban, whichalmost ruined the citys prosperity. Butit took four centuries to break their spirit,and though the cause was finally lost, de-mocracy is still plainly written upon manyof their streets. Brunswicks most striking quality is thedelightfully homelike atmosphere that seems to pervade it. No doubt the con-servatism of a folk as rich as they insuperstition made for loyalty to the familyand the ancestral dwelling, and likewisethe democratic spirit led each citizento make his house his palace. Thesehumble builders stamped their work withtheir own personality as completely as 525

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