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The Old Lincoln Cabin – Historic Reproduction

The Old Lincoln Cabin, c1902 Feb. 20. — historic photograph
The Old Lincoln Cabin, c1902 Feb. 20.. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(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: The Old Lincoln Cabin, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few sites in the Lincoln story are as often pictured as the small log cabin in Kentucky long identified as the president's birthplace, and this view shows it as it appeared in the early 1900s. The cabin had stood on the Sinking Spring farm near Hodgenville, but it had been dismantled and exhibited at expositions in the 1890s before being returned to Kentucky. Its link to Lincoln's birth has never been fully settled, so the record's note that the identification is unverified is worth keeping in mind. The picture still shows how the cabin was becoming a symbol of frontier humility in the years when the Lincoln legend was taking firm shape.

Created / publishedc1902 Feb. 20.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsH14333 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres. I.--Birthplace; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132461

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