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President Abraham Lincoln Quotation
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1908-1910
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0922
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This embossed postcard features an illustration of an open book with a right-profile, head and shoulders portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on the left page and a quotation from President Lincoln's August 22, 1862, letter to Horace Greeley on the opposite page. Pictured below the book is a gold-colored patriotic eagle above an illustration of President Lincoln's birthplace cabin within a gold-colored frame. The postcard reverse is divided. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.