[Publib] Mary Todd Lincoln in cardboard

[Mary Wilkes Towner]

John Richmond wrote:
> As 2009 is the 200th anniversary of AL's birthday, I have been looking
> for a cardboard figure of Mary Todd to go with Abe.  I have looked
> everywhere--well, almost everywhere; I may have missed *some* internet
> site--that I can find life-size cardboard figures for sale.  Lots of
> Abes, no Marys.  I wonder if any of my colleagues in IL or in other
> states have esoteric knowledge of little known manufacturers of
> cardboard figures, or of companies that might custom-produce cardboard
> figures.  I'm thinking that people might've, say, celebrated a local
> or regional figure in their own state's history, and have commissioned
> a cardboard person.
>   
Our Archivist found this site for you:
http://www.advancedgraphics.com/

AG--"Our kind of people are cardboard people"

They have Abe available (fairly reasonably, too).
Maybe they'd make a Mary Todd to go with him?

Let us know.

Maybe if they make cardboard people on demand librarians could always be 
out at the reference desk!
Just in a different format.....<ducking and running>

mary

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Mary Wilkes Towner
Adult Services Librarian
The Urbana Free Library
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