Crawford Collection

Title

Crawford Collection

Subject

Crawford, Martha E. W. (Martha Elizabeth Wilson), 1846-1922
Crawford, James Garvin, 1843-1934
Crawford, Jack, 1847-1917
McCormick, Hugh Chaffe
Indiana--Gentryville

Description

The Crawford Collection features members of the James and Martha Crawford family. Included in this collection are family and individual portraits as well as an image of Crawford House, the Gentryville, Indiana, farm where Abraham Lincoln worked in his youth.

Collection Items

Hugh Chaffe McCormick
Hugh Chaffe McCormick poses for a portrait in a military jacket. On verso: "Grandmother Wilson's brother. He was Grandmother Martha Eliz Wilson Crawford's uncle."

Martha Elizabeth Wilson Crawford, Ada Wilson McDonald, Mandy Wilson Patterson, James Garvin Crawford
Sisters Martha Elizabeth Wilson Crawford, Ada Wilson McDonald, and Mandy Wilson Patterson, along with James Garvin Crawford, husband of Martha Elizabeth Crawford, pose for a portrait.

Martha Elizabeth Wilson Crawford and James Garvin Crawford
Martha Elizabeth Wilson Crawford and James Garvin Crawford pose for a portrait on their 50th wedding anniversary in Burden, Kansas.

Captain Jack Crawford
John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford, "The Poet Scout", a famed adventurer, poses for a photo dressed as a cowboy.

The Crawford House
An illustration depicts two men standing in front of the Crawford House near Gentryville, Indiana, where Abraham Lincoln worked as a farm hand for Josiah Crawford.
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