Search for Objects
Use the filters below to search for objects of interest.
Field guide to common birds: Top row l to r: American goldfinch, brown thrasher, downy woodpecker, gray catbird. Center row: blue jay, Carolina wren, house wren, baltimore oriole. Bottom row: Great crested flyatcher, northern cardinal, American robin, song sparrow.
Published |
Published |
Published |
Published |
Published |
1829 Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum Gift of the descendants of John Quincy Foster, 1994.61
Published |
Published |
Published |
1846
Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum
Gift of the O.M. Hatch family,
Published |
c. 1830
Illinois State Museum, Illinois Legacy Collection
Transfer from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001.191.0001.0011
Published |
Published |
Published |
a. Cradle used by the three youngest Lincoln boys
b. Object was most likely made by a furniture manufacturer in New York or North Carolina
c. Purchased by the Lincolns at John Williams Dry Goods Store in Springfield probably around the time Edward Baker Lincoln was born in 1846 and used by the Lincolns’ sons until at least 1854.
d. Proper Name: Cradle
e. Unknown carpenter or manufacturer
Published |
a. Wooden bench owned by the Lincolns
b. Object was made in Springfield, IL
c. Object was made circa 1845 and used by the Lincolns until 1861
d. Proper Name: Settee or Bench
e. Object was made by local Springfield carpenter Solomon Conant
Published |
|
Pages