1. Creator/Author:
  2. Douglas Pub. Co. (1)

Memorial of Lincoln & Douglas Debate Held at Freeport, Ill.

Creator:
Douglas Pub. Co.
Location:
New York, Buffalo
Origin Date:
1920-1940
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 5 1/16 in x 3 3/4 in
Item ID:
71.2009.083.0575
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera

Description

This multiple view postcard set features the stone memorial of the Lincoln and Douglas debate held on August 27, 1858, at Freeport, Illinois. Small oval-shaped insets with head and shoulders portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are just above the memorial. When the postcard set is closed, the memorial stone with a bronze tablet is visible in the front cover window. When this first postcard is pulled down, a much smaller card (1-3/8 by 2-7/16 inches) comes into view above. Continuing to pull down on the first larger postcard brings five more double-sided smaller cards into view. Views on the smaller cards are labeled First M. E. Church, Y.M.C.A., Post Office, Carnegie Library, City Hall, St. Francis Hospital, Third Ward Park, Pecatonica River, New High School, Stephenson St. Looking West, Court House, and "The Cliffs" Globe Park. Another larger postcard featuring the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Freeport is pasted to the inside of the back cover of the envelope holding all of the postcards. Each of the smaller cards is pasted to a piece of chartex in a stairstep sequence. One end of the chartex is pasted to the obverse of the St. Mary's Catholic Church postcard just below the image. The other end of the chartex is pasted to the reverse of the debate memorial postcard. The back of the envelope holding the postcards has lines for a recipient address printed across the width. Printed above the lines is text reading "Multiple View Card, Souvenir of Jamestown and Chautauqua Lake, N. Y." Since all of the cards show views of Freeport, it appears that the envelope was repurposed to house Freeport, Illinois, views rather than views of Jamestown and Chautauqua Lake, New York. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum