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- Logan County Courthouse - Between 1840 and 1847, Abraham Lincoln tried cases here as a traveling lawyer. Visiting once or twice a year, he worked mostly on cases resolving neighbors' disagreements over land, contracts, and debts. As Lincoln traveled, people got to know him because he always took time to talk to them. This helped him earn votes later when he went into politics.
- 1840-1847
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Logan County Courthouse
Between 1840 and 1847, Abraham Lincoln tried cases here as a traveling lawyer. Visiting once or twice a year, he worked mostly on cases resolving neighbors' disagreements over land, contracts, and debts. As Lincoln traveled, people got to know him because he always took time to talk to them. This helped him earn votes later when he went into politics.
- Logan County Courthouse, Lincoln, Illinois - Henry Ford's search for a building with an Abraham Lincoln connection led him to this Illinois structure, a courthouse where Lincoln had practiced law early in his career. Ford purchased the building, although by then it had become a private residence. The building was dismantled, moved, and re-erected in Greenfield Village in time for the official dedication in October 1929.
- circa 1900
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Logan County Courthouse, Lincoln, Illinois
Henry Ford's search for a building with an Abraham Lincoln connection led him to this Illinois structure, a courthouse where Lincoln had practiced law early in his career. Ford purchased the building, although by then it had become a private residence. The building was dismantled, moved, and re-erected in Greenfield Village in time for the official dedication in October 1929.
- Actors inside Logan County Courthouse, Greenfield Village, 1983 - Between 1840 and 1847, Abraham Lincoln tried cases as a traveling lawyer when this courthouse was located in Postville (later Lincoln), Illinois. With new leadership at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in the early 1980s, museum staff worked to re-create courthouse activities in frontier communities of the 1840s--resulting in dramatic role-playing performances like this one.
- 1983
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Actors inside Logan County Courthouse, Greenfield Village, 1983
Between 1840 and 1847, Abraham Lincoln tried cases as a traveling lawyer when this courthouse was located in Postville (later Lincoln), Illinois. With new leadership at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in the early 1980s, museum staff worked to re-create courthouse activities in frontier communities of the 1840s--resulting in dramatic role-playing performances like this one.
- Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, circa 1934 - Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- circa 1934
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Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, May 1930 -
- May 08, 1930
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Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, May 1930
- Group outside Logan County Courthouse, Lincoln, Illinois -
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Group outside Logan County Courthouse, Lincoln, Illinois
- Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007 -
- September 01, 2007
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Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007
- Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007 -
- September 01, 2007
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Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007
- Wagon outside Logan County Courthouse in Lincoln, Illinois -
- circa 1900
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Wagon outside Logan County Courthouse in Lincoln, Illinois
- Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007 -
- September 01, 2007
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Logan County Courthouse in Greenfield Village, September 2007