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 Souvenir Booklet 
 
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 SPRINGFIELD 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
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 OLD SALEM STATE PARK 
 
 ILLINOIS
 
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 OVERLOOKING CAPITOL GROUNDS, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 
 THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING TO THE RIGHT WAS COMPLETED IN 1888 AT TOTAL COST OF $4,500,000.00. 
 THE CENTENNIAL BUILDING, UPPER LEFT, WAS JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED AT A COST OF OVER 
 $2,000,000. THE SUPREME COURT BUILDING IS SEEN IN THE LOWER LEFT.
 
 SUPREME COURT BUILDING, SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
 
 THE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL BUILDING, CAPITOL GROUNDS, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING CONTAINS THE STATE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND THE HISTORICAL 
 LIBRARY, WITH OVER 3000 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON LINCOLN. BUILDING COST OVER 
 
 $2,000,000.00. 
 
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 THIS IS THE HALLWAY IN THE CENTENNIAL BUILDING, CAPITOL GROUNDS, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING CONTAINS THE STATE 
 
 LIBRARY WITH OVER 3,000 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON LINCOLN. 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, AND THE HISTORICAL
 
 THE ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
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 BUILDING WAS COMMENCED MARCH 1ITH, 1868, OCCUPIED 1876 AND COMPLETED 1888. TOTAL COST 
 
 $4,500,000.00.
 
 GOVERNOR'S MANSION, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
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 LELANO HOTEL, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 THIS BEAUTIFUL AND LUXURIOUS HOSTELRY IS ONE OF SPRINGFIELD'S LEADING HOTELS. 
 MODERN CONVENIENCE FOR THE COMFORT OF ITS GUESTS. 
 
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 OLD STATE HOUSE, 1837 TO 1876, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 ELECTION TO THE PRESIDENCY. 
 
 HERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN RECEIVED NEWS OF HIS 
 
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 THIS PICTURE SHOWS THE OLD STATE HOUSE AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY IN LINCOLN'S DAY. THE BUILDING 
 THIS PI H : J s JR B E E SHO RE S MODELED smcE AND A LOWER ST o R Y ADDED. AND NOW THE BUILDING IS 
 
 USED AS THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE. 
 
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 SPRINGFIELD HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WHO LIVED IN THIS HOUSE FROM MAY 2ND, 1844, 
 THE TIME OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON IN 1861. 
 
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 IN THIS HOUSE THREE OF HIS CHILDREN WERE BORN. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN IN 1861, AND ON 
 
 THE OCCASION OF LINCOLN'S GREAT FAREWELL ADDRESS TO HIS TOWNSPEOPLE. IT WILL 
 
 BE NOTED THAT THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN IN THE ACT OF HIS SPEAKING, AS EVERY 
 ONE OF HIS AUDIENCE IS SEEN IN THE PICTURE HOLDING THEIR HATS IN THEIR HANDS.
 
 THE LINCOLN HOME. CORNER EIGHTH AND JACKSON STREETS, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS FAMILY OCCUPIED THIS HOUSE FROM MAY 2ND, 1844. UNTIL THE TIME OF 
 THEIR DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON IN 1861. IN THIS HOUSE, THREE OF HIS CHILDREN WERE BORN.
 
 VAULT IN OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD, ILL 
 
 IN THIS VAULT THE BODY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS PLACED MAY 4, 1865. MONUMENT IS SEEN ABOVE 
 WHERE THE BODY OF OUR MARTYRED PRESIDENT IS NOW JEALOUSLY GUARDED IN THE 
 VAULT AT THE BASE, WHERE DOOR IS SEEN IN PICTURE.
 
 INTERIOR OF THE MUSEUM IN THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN TOMB, OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 MUSEUM IN THE TOMB NOW VISITED BY NEARLY 200,000 PEOPLE ANNUALLY. 
 ITEMS ARE HERE EXHIBITED. H. W. FAY, CUSTODIAN. 
 
 OVER 20,000 LINCOLN
 
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 LDING WAS ERECTED ON THE HILLSIDE, AND THE LOWER STORY SHOWING IN THE PICTURE IS 
 TH.S B ^ N i G ED W ^ ^ E s = OD|AN AND HIS FAMILY. THE UPPER PART IS USED AS THE MUSEUM 
 
 AND CONTAINS A VERY INTERESTING LINCOLN COLLECTION.
 
 INTERIOR OF THE NEW MUSEUM AT OLD SALEM STATE PARK, PETERSBURG, ILL 
 
 LINCOLN LIVED AT NEW SALEM, 1831 TO 1837. A GREAT MANY OBJECTS OF UNUSUAL INTEREST ARE TO 
 BE FOUND IN THIS MUSEUM. 
 
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 THE MUSEUM AT THE OLD SALEM STATE PARK, PETERSBURG, ILL. 
 
 THE LOWER STORY IS USED AS CUSTODIAN'S HOME. BUILT ON THE HILLSIDE. THE LOWER STORY IS 
 
 NOT SEEN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. THE MUSEUM CONTAINS A VERY INTERESTING LINCOLN COLLECTION.
 
 SCENE ON SANGAMON RIVER, OLD SALEM STATE PARK, PETERSBURG, ILL. 
 
 A MILL AND DAM WERE FORMERLY AT THIS BEND IN THE SANGAMON RIVER AND IT WAS HERE THAT 
 LINCOLN HAD HIS GREATEST DIFFICULTY ON HIS ILL-FATED VOYAGE BY FLAT BOAT TO NEW ORLEANS. 
 HE HAD EMBARKED WITH MERCHANDISE ABOARD FARTHER UP THE RIVER.
 
 THE LINCOLN-BERRY STORE AS RE-BUILT AT OLD SALEM STATE PARK, PETERSBURG, ILL. 
 
 LINCOLN LIVED AT NEW SALEM FROM 1831 TO 1837. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT THE OFFUT STORE IN 1831, 
 AND AFTERWARD WENT INTO BUSINESS WITH BERRY.
 
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 THE ONSTATT COOPER SHOP AT OLD SALEM STATE PARK. PETERSBURG. ILL. 
 
 REBUILT WITH THE ORIGINAL LOGS AND ON THE ORIGINAL SITE. IT HAD BEEN MOVED TO PETERSBURG 
 AND WAS THEN MOVED BACK. HERE LINCOLN STUDIED BY THE LIGHT OF THE SHAVINGS.
 

 
 THE OFFUT STORE WHERE LINCOLN WAS EMPLOYED AS A CLERK IN 1831, NEW SALEM STATE PARK, 
 
 PETERSBURG, ILL. 
 
 WAS BUILT ON ORIGINAL SITE. THE ARMSTRONG WRESTLING MATCH WAS HELD NEAR HERE.
 
 THE RUTLEDGE TAVERN AS RE-BUILT, NEW SALEM STATE PARK, PETERSBURG, ILL. 
 
 LINCOLN LIVED AT NEW SALEM, 1831 TO 1837, AND BOARDED PART OF THE TIME AT THIS RUTLEDGE 
 TAVERN, AND HERE MET ANN RUTLEDGE, HIS BOYHOOD SWEETHEART, WHO DIED IN HER TWENTY-SECOND 
 YEAR.
 
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