Description

This color postcard features a view of the Lincoln Living Historical Farm, part of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Park located near Lincoln City, Indiana. The farm was constructed with the idea of demonstrating the rigors of daily life for pioneers living in Indiana in the early 1800s. The interpreters are posed in the photograph doing tasks that members of the Thomas Lincoln family would have done during the years that they lived in southern Indiana from 1816 to 1830. A woman is standing in the doorway of the cabin with a broom. On the other side of the split rail fence a man is shown with an axe raised over his shoulder in front of a stump used for splitting logs. The smokehouse can be seen behind the cabin. The log barn can be seen to the viewer's right behind the smokehouse. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum