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At the back door
A white woman sweeps the ground outside a house. A girl stands leaning on a column that supports a roof over the entrance of the house and a second girl stands in the doorway looking out. Caption reads: "Grandma, in her sunbonnet and Mother Hubbard…
The village nearest Lincoln's birthplace
A town square with horses tied to a railings in the center and a number of houses around. A building nearest the camera has a sign reading "HARNESS SHOP."
A mansion in the Blue Grass country near Lexington
A view of a dirt road leading up to a large, two-story house in the middle ground surrounded by trees.
A village scene
Two black men hitch a cart to a horse on the street while a white man walks behind a horse in the middle of the street. A white man sits in a chair leaning back against a house and a second white man sits on the ground next to him. Some trees grow…
Weeding a tobacco bed
Two white men kneel on the ground and weed a field. Each has a bag next to him. A white tarp covers the ground near them. A fence runs along the field on the right with a large bare tree in front of it. A house and a number of trees are in the…
In front of a Lexington blacksmith's shop
A horse hitched to a cart stands in front of a blacksmith shop standing on the left. The sign above the door reads: "BLACKSMITHING & REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS DONE TO ORDER." A man sitting on a cart leads a horse towards the camera in the middle ground.…
Looking over the nets
Two white men look at fishing nets while a third man sits on a boat. More nets are stacked against a tree. A river runs in the middle ground with city buildings visible on the far shore in the background. Caption identifies location as the mouth of…
A two story house
A view of a two story wooden shack with a ladder leading up from near the river to the second floor and a ramp on the opposite end leading towards the land. Some boats are beached near the house. Some trees grow nearby and another building is visible…
Entrance to the Mammoth Cave
A white man stands on rocks looking towards an entrance to a cave with an overgrown ground rising above it and bare trees growing around.
The fisherman
A white man sits on a log near a stream holding a fish he caught. There is a pail on the ground next to him and two sticks serving as fishing poles are propped on the ground. Bare trees grow on the opposite shore and a wooden fence runs across the…
Water from the Lincoln spring
Two barefoot white girls stand holding a pail between them and looking at the camera. A path extends into the middle ground with a number of bare trees dotting the landscape.
Two girls at a spring
Two barefoot white girls at a water spring. One stands with her hands on her sides while the other bends over the spring filling a pail with water. Caption reads: "This is the spring where Abraham Lincoln, when a child got the family drinking water.…
Where the Lincoln cabin stood
A girl kneels in a field with some bare trees growing behind her in the middle ground. A path leads towards farm buildings in the background.
On the highway
A white man walks up a dirt road looking at a dog standing next to him. Zig-zag wooden fences line the road on both sides. A bare tree stands near the road and buildings stand in the background.
A wounded crow
A black woman stands behind a wooden fence holding a crow while a black man stands on the other side of the fence looking on. The man is holding the reins of a horse which stands next to him.