# 4860 FDC - 2014 21c Lincoln Memorial
City: Springfield, IL, Lincoln’s home before becoming President
Printed By: CCL Label Inc.
Printing Method: Photogravure printed in sheets of 3 panes of 20 per sheet
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11
Self-Adhesive
Dedication Of Lincoln Memorial
In 1860, Leonard Volk made plaster masks of Abraham Lincoln’s face and hands. Two days earlier, the Illinois lawyer had learned he was the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Neither man could have known Lincoln would be assassinated five years later or that Volk’s casts would be used to create a monument to the fallen leader.
Plans for a national monument to Abraham Lincoln were discussed as early as 1867. However, the post-Civil War Reconstruction and the search for an appropriate location took decades. In 1914, on Lincoln’s 105th birthday, the first stone was laid.
Some 50,000 people were present for the ceremony, which was presided over by former President and then Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, William Howard Taft. Previously, Taft had led the commission that arranged for the memorial’s creation.
The keynote speaker of the dedication was Dr. Robert Russo Moton, president of the Tuskegee Institute. Speaking the largely white and segregated audience, Moton asked the audience to seriously consider Lincoln’s hope for a “new birth of freedom.” Then President Harding addressed the crowd, a speech that was broadcast on an experimental radiophone created by the U.S. Navy.
Click here to view video of the dedication ceremony.
City: Springfield, IL, Lincoln’s home before becoming President
Printed By: CCL Label Inc.
Printing Method: Photogravure printed in sheets of 3 panes of 20 per sheet
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11
Self-Adhesive
Dedication Of Lincoln Memorial
In 1860, Leonard Volk made plaster masks of Abraham Lincoln’s face and hands. Two days earlier, the Illinois lawyer had learned he was the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Neither man could have known Lincoln would be assassinated five years later or that Volk’s casts would be used to create a monument to the fallen leader.
Plans for a national monument to Abraham Lincoln were discussed as early as 1867. However, the post-Civil War Reconstruction and the search for an appropriate location took decades. In 1914, on Lincoln’s 105th birthday, the first stone was laid.
Some 50,000 people were present for the ceremony, which was presided over by former President and then Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, William Howard Taft. Previously, Taft had led the commission that arranged for the memorial’s creation.
The keynote speaker of the dedication was Dr. Robert Russo Moton, president of the Tuskegee Institute. Speaking the largely white and segregated audience, Moton asked the audience to seriously consider Lincoln’s hope for a “new birth of freedom.” Then President Harding addressed the crowd, a speech that was broadcast on an experimental radiophone created by the U.S. Navy.
Click here to view video of the dedication ceremony.