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Support the Constitution
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1918
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0953
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This postcard consists of a clipping titled "Support the Constitution" pasted over the front of a previously published postcard. The quotation is taken from Abraham Lincoln's Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on January 27, 1838. A footer reads: "National Woman's Christian Temperance Union-- Evanston, Illinois". The postcard reverse is divided. It is addressed in black ink to E. Lewis Bangs of Baltimore, Maryland. The Detroit, Michigan, postmark is dated October 18, 1918. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum