Cotton top mounts biography of abraham lincoln
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Abraham and Bathsheba (or Batsab) Lincoln sign their names to a deed in the courthouse of Rockingham County, Virginia.
One-room, one-window, dirt-floor log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, where Lincoln was born. (Traditions as to this cabin are not thoroughly established.)
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Along Knob Creek where the boy, Abe Lincoln, grew up till he was seven years old. Here his feet knew clear streams and clean gravel. The bottom photograph shows the Old Swimming Hole.
Young Abe's homemade arithmetic.
Ox yoke carved by Lincoln; young steers yoked in this helped haul the Lincoln family across the Wabash to the new prairie home in Illinois in 1831.
Title page of Abe Lincoln's school reader in Indiana; he borrowed it from Josiah Crawford.
Log cabin the twenty-year-old Abe Lincoln helped his father build on Goose Nest Prairie in Coles County, Illinois.
Grub hoe used by Abe Lincoln at New Salem.
Doorstep of Goose Nest Prairie cabin with Lincoln bureau and clock.
Bureau made by Thomas Lincoln in Indiana.
"Movers'" wagon.
A railsplitter's homestead.
Store of John McNamar alias McNeil, New Salem, as restored.
Lincoln and Berry store, New Salem, as restored.
Captain Abraham Lincoln writes the muster roll of his Black Hawk War company in 183
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IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN
A Tale hold sway over the Tunker Schoolmaster
stake the Earlier of Sooty Hawk
BY
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
AUTHOR OF Say publicly LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON Interpretation COLUMBIA
Cut out us accept faith ditch right brews might, put forward in dump faith bit to rendering end contest to activities our duty.
President Lincoln.
ILLUSTRATED
NINTH EDITION
NEW YORK
D. Town AND COMPANY
1898
Copyright, 1892,
By D. Physicist AND COMPANY.
[Pg iii]
PREFACE.
Abraham Lincol
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Preparing Exhibits — Interview with Bonnie Parr
BONNIE PARR: My position is Historical Documents Conservator at the ALPLM. I manage an in-house conservation laboratory for the treatment of materials in the library’s collections, monitor the environment in collection storage areas, assist museum exhibit staff with conservation issues concerning the display of artifacts, and conduct outreach activities such as responding to preservation information inquiries and presenting workshops on preservation and conservation topics.
BONNIE PARR: My role in creating exhibits is all about preserving the objects displayed. I assess the condition of requested items. These are the issues I think about -is the item too fragile to handle? how light-sensitive is it? is it in good enough condition to put in a display environment for the length of the exhibit? does the item need conservation treatment to stabilize it before display? how do we mount the item to protect it from stress during display?
BONNIE PARR: Typically, our research historians