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Postcard
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- England
- Origin Date:
- Unknown
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0358
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This is a handmade postcard announcing that Abraham Lincoln's ancestor, Samuel Lincoln, is from Hingham, Norfolk and immigrated to America in 1637. The front of the postcard is purple and adhered to it is a cropped printed image of a man resembling Abraham Lincoln along with a cropped printed paragraph. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.