Here are the pictures from the visit to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum last week in Springfield – the state capital of Illinois.

The Presidential Library/Museum itself features life-sized wax models of the president at different stages of his life, as well as that of the many historical characters whose lives affected or defined his. There was his wife, his son Todd, his assassin John Wilkes Booth, the generals with whom he won the civil war, and a number of very many historically significant signposts in the life of the nation’s 16th president.