Ravine where old-time road led past Lincoln and Berry store. 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.
Offut store, where Lincoln clerked; he outwrestled Jack Armstrong on a level green alongside. 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.
Rutledge Tavern, where he can to know Ann Rutledge. 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.
The famous Methodist preacher and circuit rider, Peter Cartwright. A Democrat beaten by Lincoln in the run for Congress in 1846. He personally threw scoffers out of church when they interrupted sermons. He once told a cold deacon who prayed, "Brother, thr Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
William G˙ Green, who clerked in the Lincoln & Berry store and studied grammar with Lincoln. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Mary Owens, with whom Lincoln seriously considered marriage. Date: 1925 Creator: Sandburg, Carl Category: People Type: Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other Permission: Northern Illinois University Source: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Rutledge family coffee pot. 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.
From a Whig campaign sheet in 1841. In the Barrett Collection. 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.
Lincoln as a "mixer" in politics stands forth vividly in this letter to Alden Hall. Four months after his wedding he is actively hunting political support that might make him a congressman. He writes of his congressional district, "I would like to be its 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.