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A rare 1940 pictorial map of Illinois by William Mark Young mapping the travels and life of Abraham Lincoln.
The map extends from Wisconsin's Bad Axe River to the meeting of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Quincy, Illinois to Louisville, Kentucky. Young compiled this map at the for the Northern Trust Company.
As noted by David Rumsey:
Pictorial map, with cartouche showing bronze statuette of Abraham Lincoln by Borglum on top and Lincoln Statue at Dixon Ill. "Lincoln Captain in Black Hawk War" by Leonard Crunelle in lower left.
Includes cities and towns, dated events, and illustrations of places with notes, portraits of Mary Todd Lincoln, Sarah Bush Lincoln, Judge Stephen Logan, William H. Herndon and Thomas Lincoln. legend: including synopsis of Lincoln's life "The Lincoln Trail Map covers those years of Abraham Lincoln's life from birth until his nomination to the presidency of the United States ..."
The map provides a a "trail" history of Abraham Lincoln's life from birth until his nomination to the presidency of the United States. Additional vignettes show Lincoln's legendary log cabin, Rutledge Dam and Mill, the Berry Lincoln Store in Ne Salem, and the Old Court House in Metamora.
Larger illustrations in the upper left focus on the last Lincoln-Douglass debate in Alton Illinois before the presidential election, and in the lower left, a rafting trip to New Orleans.
