Student Play inside Logan County Courthouse, Greenfield Village, February 1938
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Henry Ford admired President Lincoln's character and collected many Lincoln-related artifacts, including the Logan County, Illinois, courthouse in which Lincoln had practiced law in the 1840s. Ford wanted to have the courthouse serve as a teaching tool about the "principles of justice and common sense as exemplified by Abraham Lincoln." Here, students from Ford's Edison Institute Schools test out these principles.
Henry Ford admired President Lincoln's character and collected many Lincoln-related artifacts, including the Logan County, Illinois, courthouse in which Lincoln had practiced law in the 1840s. Ford wanted to have the courthouse serve as a teaching tool about the "principles of justice and common sense as exemplified by Abraham Lincoln." Here, students from Ford's Edison Institute Schools test out these principles.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
10 February 1938
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Relocated buildings and structures
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.188.P.22313
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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