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Lincoln Museum and Rutledge Tavern
- Creator:
- Auburn Post Card Manufacturing Co.
- Location:
- Indiana, DeKalb County, Auburn
- Origin Date:
- 1918-1928
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 7/16 in x 5 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1615
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This blue-sky postcard features the Lincoln Museum and the 1918 reconstruction of the Rutledge Tavern in Old Salem State Park near Petersburg, Illinois. The sky is tinted blue and has an oval inset with a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1858 in the upper left corner. The whole image is surrounded with a white border with the caption printed on the lower margin. The postcard reverse is divided vertically with the left side labeled "Correspondence" and the right side labeled "Address." Abraham Lincoln moved to the original village of New Salem in 1831 and boarded for a time at the Rutledge Tavern. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Musem