Description

This print features the text of President Abraham Lincoln's speech given at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. It also features a hand-colored engraving of President Lincoln done from a photograph taken on February 9, 1864, at Washington, D. C. The engraving is a separate sheet pasted into a printed green rectangular frame to the viewer's left of the text of the speech which is printed in green ink within a decorative border. The engraving shows a head and shoulders portrait vignette of President Lincoln in the center surrounded by various smaller illustrations of a pioneer family with a covered wagon, books and document, an African American family walking down a road, Columbia, a handshake above a banner reading "The Union Forever," and a Roman soldier with a sword in one hand and a shredded United States flag in the other standing on the back of a serpent labeled "Rebellion." The publisher's information is in the lower right corner of the bottom margin. Handwritten in black ink in top margin, "Presented to the House Office of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co (Aug. 1914) by C. E. Nay, District Manager, Akron, Ohio." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum