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Lincoln's Prophecy
- Creator:
- National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Location:
- Illinois, Evanston
- Origin Date:
- 1920-1950
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 25 1/8 in x 19 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.1955
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This poster features a photograph taken of President Abraham Lincoln on February 9, 1864, and a quotation from his speech before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society on February 22, 1842. The text reads, "And when the victory shall be complete; when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth; how proud the title of that Land, which may truly claim to be the birth-place and the cradle of both those revolutions, that shall have ended in that victory. How nobly distinguished that People, who shall have planted, and nurtured to maturity, both the political and moral freedom of their species." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
