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Stand by the President
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1918
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0830
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This handcolored postcard features a poem titled:"Stand by the President" by Frank C. Nelson printed on a background of two American flags held in the claws of an eagle with wings spread. The poem, referring to when Presidents Washington, Lincoln, and McKinley called for volunteers to fight for their country in the past, reads "McKinley called in Ninety-eight, Old Abe in Sixty-one, And years before they heard the call of Grand Old Washington, We'll answer now as they did then in accents loud and long, We are coming Woodrow Wilson, a hundred million strong. Frank C. Nelson." The postcard reverse is divided. On the left side is a handwritten note in black ink from Wright to E.L. Bangs of Baltimore, MD. The San Diego, California, postmark is dated July 24, 1918. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum