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Glover, Ridgeway "Home of Lincoln"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05136.45 Author/Creator: Glover, Ridgeway Place Written: Springfield, Illinois Type: Photograph Date: 22 May 1865 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 9.4 x 18.2 cm. Order a Copy

View of front and side of Lincoln's Springfield home decorated in funerary bunting.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

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