One-room, one-window, dirt-floor log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, where Lincoln was born. (Traditions as to this cabin are not thoroughly established.) Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Place Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Along Knob Creek where the boy, Abe Lincoln, grew up till he was seven years old. Here his feet knew clear streams and clean gravel. The bottom photograph shows the Old Swimming Hole Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Place Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Young Abe's homemade arithmetic. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Ox yoke carved by Lincoln; young steers yoked in this helped haul the Lincoln family across the Wabash to the new prairie home in Illinois in 1831. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Photograph Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Title page of Abe Lincoln's school reader in Indiana; he borrowed it from Josiah Crawford. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Manuscript/Document Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Log cabin the twenty-year-old Abe Lincoln helped his father build on Goose Nest Prairie in Coles County, Illinois. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Grub hoe used by Abe Lincoln at New Salem. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Equipment Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Doorstep of Goose Nest Prairie cabin with Lincoln bureau and clock. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: Place Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Bureau made by Thomas Lincoln in Indiana. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.