Presidential visit

Above: Visitors enter a semi-trailer housing a mobile exhibit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Museum that was on display in the parking lot of Assembly Hall. “Abraham Lincoln: Self Made in America” told the story of Lincoln’s life through interactive displays and reproduction documents, artifacts and a holographic display. The exhibit was on campus Oct. 18-25.

Below: Lance Schideman, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and his children, Luke, 9, Katrian, 7, and Anneliese, 4, examine a map showing the political climate in the states during Abraham Lincoln’s first campaign for the U.S. presidency in 1860. The mobile exhibit was one of many activities being held throughout the state to celebrate the life of the nation’s 16th president and the bicentennial of his birth on Feb. 12, 2009.