Lincoln the Rail Splitter – Historic Print
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Description
A window into the past: Lincoln the Rail Splitter, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lincoln the Rail Splitter
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Lincoln the Rail Splitter takes its name from the nickname that followed Abraham Lincoln into the 1860 presidential campaign, when supporters promoted his youthful work splitting fence rails as a symbol of hard labor and self-reliance. The memorial's grounds in southern Indiana recall the years from 1816 to 1830, when Lincoln grew from a boy into a young man on the family farm, where clearing land and splitting rails were everyday work. The image links that frontier boyhood to the political myth that grew up around it. Viewers today can read it both as a portrait of a man and as a piece of campaign storytelling from the Civil War era.
| Original scan | 1,150 × 1,396 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-F-9 |
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