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A House Divided

Creator:
unknown
Location:
Unknown place made
Origin Date:
1908-1930
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in
Item ID:
71.2009.083.0975
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera

Description

This embossed, colored postcard features an open book on a gold-colored stand with a decorative border of pink and red roses around it. On the left hand page is a right-profile portrait of President Abraham Lincoln with his birth and death years above. On the right page is a paraphrased quotation from Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech which he gave at Springfield, Illinois, on June 16, 1858: "A house divided against itself cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." The postcard reverse is divided. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum