Lincoln Photos Part 1

[Joe Di Cola]

(10-27-2013 07:01 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Roger,

I discuss the birthplace cabin in Chapter 4 of my book. The two sources I used for the overall story was a report written in the late 1960s by a woman named Gloria Peterson of the National Park Service and an article which appeared in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly by Roy Hays in 1948. The Hays article is somewhat long, but it explains the background very well.

Tarbell was one of a group of people that gave their opinion as to whether it was genuine or not. She believed it was, although I can't find any evidence that she did any more than rely on her memory of her early 1890s visit to Kentucky when she was researching the McClure's Magazine series. There was a picture of the cabin in McClure's.

Here are the links to what I used.

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/onlin.../hrs2c.htm

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/alajournals/...w=fulltext

Best
Rob

Rob,

The Indiana cabin in McClure's might be one that the Lincolns had begun (but also might not have completed) before they departed to Illinois and not the one they resided in during the ndiana years--which, by the 1890s, may have been gone.

Joe