Interior View of Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, March 1935
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Artifact Overview
Henry Ford admired Lincoln's character and his embodiment of the ideals of the "self-made man." Ford collected many Lincoln-related artifacts, including the Logan County, Illinois, courthouse in which Lincoln had practiced law in the 1840s. This photograph, taken in the 1930s, shows how Mr. Ford displayed furniture from the Lincolns' Springfield home, acquired to honor Lincoln and provide visitors with a sense of the time period.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
25 March 1935
Subject Date
25 March 1935
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
EI.1929.877
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11.125 in
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Henry Ford and Abraham Lincoln
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Henry Ford admired Lincoln's down-to-earth, frontier character. The image of Lincoln as the "rail splitter" is central to that theme - it emerged during the 1860 Illinois Republican nominating convention when Lincoln's cousin emerged with a banner constructed of rails split by Lincoln and the audience went wild. This fragment of a split rail was retailed at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.