Lincoln Sites - Photos From The Early 1960's

[Joe Di Cola]

(03-26-2018 02:26 PM)Gene C Wrote:  The Lincoln Country in pictures by Carl and Rosalie Frazier.

Gene, Page 21 is an image of the replica cabin. The original was supposedly sent to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and vanished after that. In all of my extensive research on that fair, I have never been able to confirm (or not) its presence at the fair. The "logs" may have been warehoused instead of being assembled for the fair and, if warehoused on the fair grounds, may have been destroyed in the fires that consumed the fair buildings.

This is a short book, copyright 1963, of about 95, high quality, black and white photo's ranging from Lincoln's birthplace to his house in Springfield.
Nothing new here, but I did enjoy looking at the photo of Thomas Lincoln's last home on page 20-21.
Most of the pictures I've seen, it looked in a more dilapidated condition.
A majority of the photo's in this book are from New Salem.

Join us for this years Springfield Tour, May 4-6 and see how things have changed in the past 55 years.

https://archive.org/stream/lincolncountr...3/mode/2up

The world of black and white photographs is explained here
http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.bl...k-and.html