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5. No. 168 : Post hole digger for catenary piers beach road

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1924

Part of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad photograph collection

6. No. 137 : Showing crossing gate construction

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circa 1924

Part of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad photograph collection

Clipping

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1968

Part of Awarded to F. Perryman for saving the lives of ten boys on Lake Michigan from ice floes February 12, 1899

General view of garden at Mt. Vernon

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1912-02-04

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Tomb at Mt. Vernon

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1911-08-16

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Mouth of Anderson's Creek (copied from McClure's Magazine); 1895/12

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Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Negro cabin and tobacco field on road to Lincoln Farm, 11:30 AM

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1911-08-08

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A black and white photograph taken by Jesse Lowe Smith of a cabin and a tobacco field during his trip to the Lincoln Farm.

The Thomas Lincoln Cabin (on Goose Nest Prairie near Farmington, IL, where Thomas Lincoln lived and died) - Hay-Nicolay Life; 1913/01/23

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Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A photograph of the Lincoln Log Cabin Historical Site. This site was where Thomas Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's father) lived, and where his son occasionally visited.