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With Malice Toward None, with Charity for All
- Creator:
- P. F. Volland & Co.
- Location:
- Illinois, Chicago
- Origin Date:
- 1908-1930
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0972
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This embossed postcard features a gold-colored rectangle with a patriotic eagle at the top. Inside the rectangular border is a silhouette of President Abraham Lincoln seated in a chair. Below the silhouette is a quotation from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address which he delivered on March 4, 1865: "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in." The postcard reverse is divided. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
