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Lincoln Family Home Draped in Mourning
- Creator:
- Samuel A. Rice
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1908
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 3.25 cm x 5 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0702
- 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 the Abraham Lincoln family home in Springfield, Illinois, draped in mourning after his death on April 15, 1865. A large crowd of people gathered to be in the photograph. The caption printed along the lower edge of the image reads "The Home of Lincoln Draped for His Funeral, May 4, 1865." The postcard reverse is divided. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
