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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.