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Maids Room, Abraham Lincoln's Home
- Creator:
- Curteich
- Location:
- Illinois, Chicago
- Origin Date:
- 1966
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 7/16 in x 5 7/16 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1749
- 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 maid's room in the Abraham Lincoln Family home in Springfield, Illinois. When the Lincoln's lived there from 1844 to 1861, the small room was furnished with odds and ends of furniture no longer used by the family. The bed with a chamber pot at the end is to the left. A sewing machine with a trunk beneath is to the right. A rocking chair is placed in the middle of the room. The postcard reverse is divided with narrative text printed on the left side. Beneath the text is a handwritten note in blue ink from Bob to Alice O'Reilly of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Springfield, Illinois, postmark is dated Jan. 20, 1969. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum