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Making Soap
- Creator:
- Walter H. Miller & Co.
- Location:
- Virginia, Williamsburg
- Origin Date:
- 1965-1975
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1937
- 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 an interpreter at the Lincoln Living Historical Farm near Lincoln City, Indiana, making soap in a kettle outside the smoke house. The Farm demonstrates pioneer life as it was when the family of Abraham Lincoln lived in southern Indiana during his childhood from 1816-1830. The postcard reverse is divided with narrative text printed on the left side. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum