Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/52a5149f231f89838f039ef776d0370c

Title

Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration

Creator

House mice

Date

06/13/03

Description

Artifacts recovered from mouse nest during 1987-88 Lincoln Home restoration, including the mice. Newspaper, wood, grass, plaster materials; white satin ribbon; newspaper; two square-cut nail heads; paper and carpet bits; various wallpaper patterns; book/magazine pages; lime-green knit fabric; string/twine; dated newspaper (1871 76 milled lumber chunks.
Shows the great variety of items that can be stored by industrious mice.
American Communities in History; Antebellum Society and the Civil War; How we learn about communities
16 History

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Pest
Household
Artifact
Mouse

Source

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Relation

http://imagesearchnew.library.illinois.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/tdc/id/1919

Type

image

References

http://imagesearchnew.library.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tdc/id/1919

Citation

House mice, “Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 29, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7286.

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