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Gettysburg Address bookmark
- Creator:
- Quality Industries, Inc.
- Location:
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Origin Date:
- 1960-1965
- Materials:
- cloth, plastic
- Measurements:
- overall: 5 13/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.082.0840
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
This woven red, white, and blue bookmark features a patriotic shield at the top with an oval-framed portrait of President Abraham Lincoln in the center. His name is above the shield with his birth and death dates just below the shield. A quotation from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address follows. Below the quotation is a cannon with a pyramid of cannon balls and the text "Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965." Clear plastic backs the bookmark to protect the threads. A decorative blue rope with tassel is threaded through a hole in the top of the plastic Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
