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Stephen Douglas' mother sign, Ottawa, Illinois

Identifier: C0270B412_025
Title: Stephen Douglas' mother sign, Ottawa, Illinois
Description: Close-up of a sign which says "Important Intelligence! Found his mother. On the 15th inst., after long search and intense yearning of filian affection Stephen Arnold Douglas! Found his disconsolate, maternal relative at Clifton Springs, N.Y., and, notwithstanding a severe cold and sore throat, spoke to her an hour and a half on the great service she had done her country, by giving birth to popular sovereignty and a short-legged son. The venerable lady wept tears of joy as she embraced her long lost but newly found Japhet. 'He had a mother.'" This photograph was taken as part of filming C-SPAN's Lincoln-Douglas Debates series in Ottawa, Illinois.
Date: 1994-10
Extent: 4x6
Subject: Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858; Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
Type: Photo
Format: Color
Language: Eng
Physical location: Box 412
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Copyright not held by George Mason University Libraries. Restricted to personal, non-commercial use only. For permission to publish, contact Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.