Last year, I posted recollections of my childhood years during which we celebrated a separate birthday for Lincoln and for Washington.

In Elementary School, , we covered the bulletin board with rail fences and log cabins of construction paper for the 12th, then replaced them with cherry trees and cannons for the 22nd.

Here is a postcard commemorating Abraham Lincoln.

It is typical of the kinds of postcard greetings mailed in commemoration of Lincoln’s Birthday.

The postcard was unmailed, but found with the correspondence of a Pennsylvania resident.

I believe the postcard was a memento of the centennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth in 1809.