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McLean House
- Creator:
- Mayer Post Card Co.
- Location:
- Virginia, Roanoke
- Origin Date:
- 1960-1970
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0470
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This color postcard features the reconstructed McLean House located at Appomattox, Virginia, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. The house is part of the Appomattox court House National Historical Park in Virginia. The postcard reverse is divided. Brief narrative text is printed on the left side. The number S-61685 is printed along the bottom edge near the middle. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.