Abraham Lincoln

Original 9 x 7 mounted albumen photograph of the "Log Cabin in Wich Lincoln Was Born," affixed to a slightly larger mount. Matted to an overall size of 15 x 13.5. In very good to fine condition, with wear to the edges of the mount.

This cabin was in fact built by Abraham Lincoln and his father on Goose Nest Prairie, near Farmington, Illinois, in 1831; Lincoln had been born in Kentucky in 1809. Located near Charleston, Illinois, the log cabin was the home of Lincoln's father and stepmother, Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln, and where the former died in 1851. While traveling the circuit as a lawyer, Lincoln would visit them at this home and was involved with later purchasing some of the land for his parents to remain living there. In 1893, the log cabin was removed to Chicago for exhibition at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition but was unfortunately lost after the Exposition and possibly even used as firewood.