The Lincoln Farm Association. Honorary Membership certificate. 9x11¾". Engraved by New York Bank Note Company, with portrait of Lincoln, his family’s farm house where he was born and the White House. Certificate No. 25261, February 13, 1907, enrolling Alice D. Bendick as an Honorary Member of the Association, “a patriotic organization formed by American citizens for the purpose of preserving as a National Park the farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born.” 

With facsimile signatures of the 3 Association officers and 19 directors including Mark Twain, future President William Howard Taft, banker August Belmont, and Lincoln biographer Ida Tarbell. Although thousands made contributions to the Association for the 1916 preservation of what is now the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park in Kentucky, these Association “membership” certificates are not common.