Description

This broadside features the text of President Abraham Lincoln's speech given at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Above the title is a quotation from Ralph G. Newman: "The immortal words of Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg battlefield, November 19, 1863, on the occasion of the dedication of the National Military Cemetery. These classic remarks have, in the intervening century, become accepted throughout the world as the greatest affirmation of our democratic form of government." In the center of the page is "a reproduction, actual size, of the copy of the Gettysburg Address, in President Lincoln's handwriting, now owned by the Illinois State Historical Library." Placed on both sides of the reproduction is the typed text of the speech in several foreign languages printed in various colors. From left to right the languages are Hebrew, Japanese, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Latin. Printed in the lower right corner are "Compliments of the Disabled American Veterans" and the copyright information. On the back side are an illustration by J. Stanley Wilson of the Daniel Chester French sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and twelve illustrations with captions of events in Lincoln's life beginning with his birth in Kentucky and ending with the assassination at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum