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| 1543 |
| Lincoln On Fence |
| FES Title: | Lincoln on fence. | |
| Alternate Titles: | One of Lincoln’s Favorite Perches was on Top of an Old Fashioned Rail Fence |
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| Date: | 03/30/1927 | |
| Size: | 36″H x 30″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Madison, Lucy Foster. Lincoln. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1928: 68. caption: One of Lincoln’s Favorite Perches Was on Top of an Oldfashioned Rail Fence ______. New York: Hampton Publishing Company, 1928: 68. Donna Lawrence Productions, and New Salem Lincoln League. Turning Point Lincoln’s New Salem. [Louisville, KY]: Donna Lawrence Productions Inc, 1992. Tarbell, Ida M. Abraham Lincoln & His Ancestors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997: cover. |
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| Inscription: | ll: Frank E. Schoonover / ’27 | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1931 FES; 1954 Peoples; 1967 WSFS (title unverified); 1977 FES; 2001 FES | |
| Comments: | TP; non-trany 4×5; index; edit | |
| Commentary: | Schoonover writes on a card: “One of his [Abe Lincoln’s] favorite perches was on top of a worm fence – and he often carried a book to the fields. About the first to go was Aesop’s Fables.” (archives) | |
| Provenance: | Artist; Helen L. Card, Latendorf Bookshop, New York (as of June 19, 1961); Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Wilmington, Delaware | |
