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School House Site
- Creator:
- C. Bever
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1931
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 5 7/16 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1868
- 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 a wooded site with an arrow pointing to an object on the ground. A handwritten caption is printed on the lower half of the image reading: "By C. Bever, June, 1931. Remains of cistern by log school house site. Is said Mr. Redmond Grigsby, in the school house 1870s during a rain storm, told his grandson Eli, 'Remember budy Abraham Lincoln went to school here.' 1-3/4 south of Lincoln City, Ind." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum