This is probably the foremost collection at Oakland University and one of the strongest collections on the Civil War in any Michigan library.  Mr. Springer was the editor of the New Center News published in Detroit and was an avid collector of Civil War materials.  The collection consists of 2000 volumes, lots of original materials, and the "Black Papers."  Mr. Black was an attorney that Mr. Henry Ford I hired to investigate the death of John Wilkes Booth.  There are also a number of artifacts in this collection.
 

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You may also be interested in looking at some scanned images of documents in the collection that bear Abraham Lincoln's signature.