Lincoln Home Historic Furnishings Report

FOOTNOTES TO SECTION E

1. Caroline Owsley Brown, "Springfield Society Before the Civil War," The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XV, nos. 2-2, (July, 1909), p.480.

2. Advertisement, J. A. Hough, Illinois Daily Journal, May 11, 1849.

3. Advertisement, J. Hutchinson, Illinois Daily Journal, January 2, 1850.

4. Ibid., January 6, 1857.

5. Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969), p. 429.

6. There is little evidence concerning the Lincolns' holiday traditions. One reference indicates that they did have turkey at Thanksgiving. An article in the New York Tribune December 1 referring to November 29, 1860, stated, "Mr. Lincoln, like the rest of Anglo-American mankind, feasted on roast turkey, and having special cause to thank his Maker, attended Divine Service," quoted in William Baringer, Lincoln Day by Day (Washington, 1960), p. 299. Christmas was celebrated in Springfield by a giving of gifts according to the Journal of Anna Ridgeley (Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XXII, no. 5, October, 1929, pp. 401-446). Valentine's Day was another holiday celebrated in Springfield. A. Birchall and Owens' advertisement in the Illinois State Daily Journal February 13, 1850, read, "We anticipate that a thousand of these quiet, delicate and pleasing tokens of regard will be sent about in this city tomorrow." For further information on holiday decorations, see Katherine Menz, "Holiday and Family Celebrations in the Early Nineteenth Century," unpublished report, Harpers Ferry Center, The National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, December 1982.

7. Harriet Chapman to W. H. Herndon, December 11, 1866, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress.

8. Letters to Herndon from John Hay, September 5, 1866 in Emanuel Hertz, The Hidden Lincoln from the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon (New York, 1938), pp. 307-308.

9. N. W. Branson to Herndon, August 3, 1865, Herndon-Weik Collection.

10. Isaac N. Arnold (a regular visitor to Springfield, 1840-1860) was quoted in Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield: The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943), p. 94.

11. Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslie's Lady's House Book (Philadelphia: A. Hart, 12th edition, 1850), p. 275.

12. Geoffrey A. Godden, Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks (New York: Crown Publishing Co., 1960), p. 193.

13. Ibid., p. 667.

14. G. Bernard Hughes, Victorian Pottery and Porcelain (New York: The MacMillen Co., 1959), p. 50.

15. A. L. Bowen, "A. Lincoln; His House," Lincoln Centennial Association Papers (Springfield, privately published 1925), p. 87.

16. Harry E. Pratt, ed., "The Lincolns Go Shopping," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume XLVIII, pp. 66-67.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Betty I. Madden, Arts Crafts and Architecture in Early Illinois (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974), p. 172.

20. Bowen, Lincoln Centennial, p. 87.

21. Madden, Arts Crafts, pp. 151, 175, 235.

22. Leslie, Miss Leslie's, p. 230.

23. Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little Brown, 1953), pp. 102-103.

24. Leslie, Miss Leslie's, p. 230.

25. Catherine Beecher, The American Woman's Home (New York: J. B. Ford & Co., 1869), p. 371.

26. Leslie, Miss Leslie's, p. 183.

27. Madden, Arts Crafts, p. 110.

28. Leslie, Miss Leslie's, p. 233.

29. Pratt, Journal, pp. 66-67.

30. Leslie, Miss Leslie's, p. 235.

31. Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 102-103.

32. Edwin C. Bearss, Historic Structure Report Lincoln Home National Historic Site Illinois (Denver: Denver Service Center, The National Park Service, 1973), Plate I.

33. Richard O. Cummings, The American Ice Harvests, A Historical Study in Technology 1800-1918 (California: University of California Press, 1949), pp. 59-60.

34. Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1954), Volume 1, p. 188.

35. See Winterthur, Delaware, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Joseph Downs Manuscript Collection, Inventories 1840-1860.

36. See Harold L. Peterson, American Interiors From Colonial Times to the Late Victorians (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971) and Susan Lasdun, Victorians at Home (New York: The Viking Press, 1981).

37. John Brucksch, Staff Curator, Harpers Ferry Center has purchased several mid-century photographs in their original frames with hanging attachments that indicate they were hung on the wall.

38. See Sarah Olson, "Historic Furnishing Plan: William Howard Taft National Historic Site," The National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, April 1, 1979, p. 106.

39. Leslie, Lady's House Book, p. 326.

40. Edwin C. Bearss, Historical Base Map Lincoln Home National Historical Park Illinois (Washington, D. C., Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, 1969), Plate III.