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First Meeting of the Two Great Emancipators
- Creator:
- Albert T. Reid
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1930
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 5 7/16 in x 3 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.1870
- 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 editorial cartoon by illustrator Albert T. Reid which depicts a 21-year-old Abraham Lincoln in a newspaper office. The narrative text tells the anecdote of the Lincoln family leaving Spencer County, Indiana, and stopping in Vincennes, Indiana, as they are on their journey to Macon County, Illinois. The office of "The Western Sun and General Advertiser" located in Vincennes is where Lincoln first encountered a printing press according to the text below the image. The postcard reverse is undivided and has a brief handwritten note in black ink from Curtis G. Shaw to Louis A. Warren. The Vincennes postmark is dated May 2, 1930. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum