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Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People

book by Clara Ingram Judson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4668994 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson is a children's book first published in 1950 which was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1951.

Editorial summary

“Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People” enters the record as book by Clara Ingram Judson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Abraham, Lincoln and Friend can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1951—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Abraham, Lincoln and Friend.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Abraham, Lincoln and Friend provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4668994. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1951.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People primary sources, Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People archive and Abraham research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.