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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:
- 71.2009.082.0841
- 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 with the citation below. 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. "The Bergers" is stamped in red ink at the top of the bookmark. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
