City Hall, Broadway and Market Street, Alton, Illinois, circa 1890
Scanned by
John Osborne, Dickinson College
Scan date
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Original caption
Corner of City Hall, Alton, Illinois The platform from which Lincoln and Douglas spoke was erected in front of the first floor window
Source citation
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Arnold Douglas, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, ed. Edwin Earle Sparks (Springfield, IL: The Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1908), Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, 3; Lincoln Series, 1: facing page 450.