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“The Earthly Pilgrimage of Abraham Lincoln” – circa 1929

March 4, 2026 No Comments

This pictorial representation of places associated with Abraham Lincoln was not mailed, so there is no personal story connected to it. At the time the

“Lincoln Memorials of Kentucky” – Columbia, Kentucky (1928)

January 31, 2025 No Comments

Miss Dorothy Gray lived in Chicago, the largest city and the center of business and transportation in the Midwest US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago In June of 1928,

The Lincoln Farm – Hodgenville, Kentucky (circa 1920)

January 9, 2023 No Comments

Abraham Lincoln grew up as the son of a poor, subsistence farmer. Kentucky had no reason to claim him before his extraordinary political career and