The Lincoln Home: Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois, 第 2 巻、第 2 号Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1990 - 441 ページ |
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Abraham Lincoln acquired antique acquired reproduction affidavit Alfred Waud back parlor basket Bearss bedstead Bottle Brief Description bureau carpet chair LIHO Chicago Historical Society china clean cloth coln Cost Purchase Repair cupboard Date dining room Documentation Empire style Estimated Cost Purchase floor coverings Ford's Theatre frame front parlor girandoles Herndon Historic Structure Report Illinois State Historical Illustrated News paper ironstone Java Coffee kitchen Lady Lady's House Book Late Empire style Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper Lincoln association Lincoln Home Lincoln Memorial Collection Lincoln ownership LINCOLN'S BEDROOM listed Location mahogany maid's room Manual for Museums March 9 Mary Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln mirror Ninian Edwards Object Oldroyd Collection Pair Period practice pressed glass provenance Robert Todd Lincoln Rocking Chair ROOM G second floor shelves side chairs sitting room sofa Springfield stereoscope stereoscope view stove Sugar Tiltons WALLPAPER walnut wardrobe Washington washstand Waud whatnot window wood wooden
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355 ページ - Ranger should prepare an emergency action plan for implementation in the event of natural disasters, fire, civil unrest, and bomb threats. It should delineate responsibilities of park employees to minimize danger to life and property. The staff must be made aware in advance of actions designed to save the more valuable museum objects. A plan for the safe evacuation of visitors and staff must be posted. Fire drills held on a regular basis are one of the best ways to ensure the proper response to an...
25 ページ - She was dressed plainly but richly. She wore a beautiful full trail, white moire antique silk, with a small French lace collar. Her neck was ornamented with a string of pearls. Her head-dress was a simple and delicate vine arranged with much taste.
22 ページ - Within the last three weeks there has been a party almost every night, and some two or three grand fetes are coming off this week. I may surprise you when I mention that I am recovering from the slight fatigue of a very large, and I really believe, a very handsome and agreeable entertainment, at least our friends flatter us by saying so. About five hundred were invited; yet, owing to an unlucky rain, three hundred only, favored us by their presence.
196 ページ - In her modest and simple home, there was always, on the part of both host and hostess, a cordial and hearty western welcome, which put every guest perfectly at ease.
38 ページ - Home] stands on a sort of platform of brickwork, and is two stories high, having two windows on each side of the door and five on the upper story. The side view shows it has an extension and side entrance with a receding stoop running the whole length of the extension. In the rear are the stables and barn. The edifice is painted a pale chocolate color, and the window blinds are of deep green. The roof extends a little over the edges, like that of a Swiss cottage. The rooms are elegantly and comfortably...
29 ページ - That is good — good considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again. Tell Louisa I want her to watch you a little for me. Get weighed and write me how much you weigh.
13 ページ - My Father's life was of a kind which gave me but little opportunity to learn the details of his early career. During my childhood & early youth he was almost constantly away from home, attending courts or making political speeches.
35 ページ - Convention was closed, I took the cars for Springfield. I found Mr. Lincoln living in a handsome, but not pretentious, double two-story frame house, having a wide hall running through the centre, with parlors on both sides, neatly, but not ostentatiously, furnished. It was just such a dwelling as a majority of the well-to-do residents of these fine western towns occupy.
45 ページ - AT PRIVATE SALE The furniture consisting of Parlor and Chamber Sets, Carpets, Sofas, Chairs, Wardrobes, Bureaus, Bedsteads, Stoves, China, Queensware, Glass etc. at the residence on the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets is offered at private sale without reserve.
135 ページ - Black can have room for them, can they be moved, to any place above his store, where he may have room for them. The sofa, at Mr. Burch's was new, a few months before we left - May I also ask you, to speak to Mr Black, and see if the 8 boxes we left with him, are all there...