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Wood fragment and leaf souvenir
- Creator:
- Herbert Wells Fay
- Location:
- Illinois, Springfield
- Origin Date:
- 1929
- Materials:
- paper, wood, plant
- Measurements:
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.082.0901
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
This souvenir card consists of a dried oak leaf pasted to the right side of a folded piece of stationery embossed with "H. W. Fay, Custodian Lincoln's Tomb, Springfield, Illinois" in three lines at the top right above the leaf. Just below and to the right of the leaf handwritten in black ink is "oak leaf from tree at Lincoln Tomb." A two-inch fragment of wood is pasted on the left side near the left edge of the paper. An inscription handwritten in black ink to the right of the wood fragment reads "To Jackson Cochrone, at Lincoln's Tomb, Nov. 11 1929, accompanying a piece of wood from Lincoln Springfield home H.W. Fay." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
