Pioneer Home Of Abraham Lincoln – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Pioneer Home Of Abraham Lincoln, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pioneer Home Of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln's boyhood cabins were rough one-room log structures on the Kentucky and Indiana frontier, and this print, dated to about 1890, presents one as a "pioneer home" for a public that had come to see those humble beginnings as central to his story. The image was made roughly 25 years after Lincoln's assassination in 1865, when popular books, illustrated magazines, and commemorative prints were turning his youth into a national legend of self-reliance. Viewers of the period often read such scenes as symbols of honest labor and westward settlement, and the cabin's simple form reflects that romantic view of his origins.
| Created / published | c. 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | |
| Notes | John House |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,320 × 6,991 px · prints to 31 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 01635u |
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