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Folder of Lincoln-related philatelic items
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1959-1995
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.082.0794
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
This folder contains thirteen philatelic items all related to events or places in the life of Abraham Lincoln. "First Day of Issue" souvenir sheets; large postcards with Lincoln stamps attached; a facsimile of Lincoln's handwritten Gettysburg Address with "First Day of Issue" postmark and Lincoln stamps; a program for the Sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Birth with a stamp block of green one-cent stamps with "First Day of Issue" postmark on the back cover; a facsimile of the calligraphic Proclamation of Emancipation portrait of Lincoln with an Emancipation Proclamation stamp and "First Day of Issue" postmark in the lower right corner; and a sheetlet of 20 Civil War commemorative stamps from the United States Postal Service Classic Collection. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
