Where Is It?

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(11-02-2019 03:57 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-02-2019 02:13 AM)Steve Wrote:  The photo comes from Barton's book, The Women Lincoln Loved, doesn't it? Did Barton take the photo himself? If he didn't, did he leave any indication where he got it from?

Yes, that is where I got it. All it says under the photo is "The parlor of the house in which they were married" and "photograph by Eugene J. Hall, Oak Park, Illinois." No date or other information is given.

There is a Find-A-Grave page for Mr. Hall here:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1477...udson-hall

The obit for Mr. Hall gives us a bit of dates to speculate upon. Although he traveled a great deal before moving to Illinois, we can speculate that the photo was taken after that move. The obit says he had lived in Oak Park for forty years before his death in 1932, so that would place his move about 1892 and support the theory that the photo dates to the late-1800s.

Next question: When was Barton's book published? The photo would have been taken before that - wonder how long Barton worked on it?