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Log Home of Constable David Turnham at Dale, Indiana
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1952
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 7/16 in x 5 7/16 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1991
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This postcard is a photograph of the home of David Turnham, a constable for Squire William Wood's court during the years that Abraham Lincoln was growing up in Spencer County in southern Indiana. Lincoln worked on the Turnham farm occasionally and there read the 1824 Revised Laws of Indiana. The caption is printed along the lower edge of the photograph. The reverse is divided and has a typewritten note from O. V. Brown of Dale, Indiana, to Dr. Louis A. Warren of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Dale, Indiana, postmark is dated Dec. 26, 1952. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
