Authors

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This is an illustration of a wood slat cabin or home that is in disrepair. Trees are pictured behind the cabin. The caption beneath the illustration reads "The Early Home of Abraham Lincoln, As it Stands, in Elizabethtown, Hardin Co. KY. His father built this cabin and moved into it when Abraham was an infant, and resided there till he was Seven Years of age when he removed to Indiana. Published by J. O. Wright and Co. New York." The illustration is within volume one of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1890

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Houses; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Object Type

image

Format (original)

illustration

Format (digital)

JPG

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V1_Illustration-of-Lincoln-home_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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