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[In-person tour] To mark the Great Emancipator's actual birthday, historian Matt Postal revisits the Civil War metropolis, considering a particularly historic stretch of lower Broadway, from the site of Barnum's American Museum to present-day SoHo. Highlights include various 19th century structures associated with the 16th president and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, including Matthew Brady's gallery and daguerreotype studio, the Haughwout department store, as well as theaters, saloons, and related amusements.