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Color postcard of Abraham Lincoln
- Creator:
- P. Sander
- Location:
- unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- Unknown
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0425
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This is a color illustrated postcard of Abraham Lincoln. The background is gray with white circular decorations. At the top is an illustration of Lincoln in a suit and bow tie surrounded by a blue frame with white stars and two American flags on either side. Below this is an illustration of Lincoln holding an axe and splitting a rail with two cows and a log cabin in the background. "Lincoln as Rail-Splitter" is printed beside the illustration. 1809 and 1909 are printed in the lower corners of the postcard. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.