Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingH. Clay 1 print : engraving with stipple on wove paper ; 15.3 x 9.2 cm. (sheet) | Another campaign portrait of Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay. In an oval frame, surrounded by an ornate floral wreath, is a bust-length portrait of Clay. Two books and a quill pen are visible over his shoulder at left; at right, behind a curtain, is the base of a…- Contributor: Whaites, Edward P.
- Date: 1844-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866 Geary the candidate for Governor was in the procession. Every radical candidate for United States Senator took part. White men & women are you … A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the convention of Radical Republicans held in Philadelphia in September 1866. On a dais in the background left, black men cheer as a procession of white men arm-in-arm with blacks enter from the right. The legend…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe first great Western empire or, the United States of America ... /
United States of America 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress, on wove paper ; 26 x 37.5 cm. (image) | A patriotic broadside illustrated with emblems of the United States composed chiefly of typographic elements. A large central framework incorporates a small "Temple of Freedom" surmounted by a small Liberty figure, and containing the words "The Federal Constitution." On each side are oval bust portraits of Presidents (left…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Packard, Robert - Clark, Jonathan - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1812
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Photo, Print, DrawingOur country . . . home industry 1 print : woodcut with letterpress, on wove paper ; 31.7 x 26.1 cm. (image) | An anti-Jackson broadside issued during the 1824 presidential election campaign. The text strongly criticizes Jackson's anti-tariff platform and condemns him and William Coleman as advocates of British interests. The author also praises Henry Clay's support of American home industry. The illustrations symbolically represent Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture. The…- Date: 1824-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingCity of New York. Mordecai M. Noah, of No. 57, Franklin-Street, being duly sworn . . . Parody of a public notice, dated June 20, 1828, reporting an assault on American Zionist, playwright, and editor Mordecai Manuel Noah by Elijah J. Roberts. In the text Noah petitions that Roberts "be bound by recognizance to be of good behavior and keep the peace, and to answer for the above assault, &c. at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace .…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Photo, Print, DrawingAm I not a man and a brother? 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 26.7 x 22.8 cm. | The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s, and appeared…- Contributor: Anti-Slavery Office (New York, N.Y,) - American Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1837-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Clay-Frelinghuysen campaign badge] 1 print : woodcut printed in black and blue on silk ; 18.8 x 7.8 cm. (fabric) | An earlier state or proof of number 1844-6, this impression is printed on silk and lacks the "Hoboken Clay Club" overprinting. (The scrolls are left blank.)- Contributor: Hemming, R.
- Date: 1844-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe constitutional amendment! One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also nos. 1866-6, 1866-7, and 1866-8.) Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising blacks. In "The Constitutional Amendment" a group of black men…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe two platforms Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents…- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. Honor and gratitude to the man who has filled the measure of his country's glory--Jefferson 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4.6 x 3.7 cm. | Prints number 1828-5 through 1828-10 make up a series of election tickets for John Van Laer Mcm.ahon and George H. Steuart, Democratic candidates for Baltimore delegates to the Maryland General Assembly in 1828. Each ticket bears a woodcut emblem and a motto. 1828-5 has a bust portrait of Jackson…- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 3 x 3.5 cm. | Election ticket with image of a three-masted sailing vessel.- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. Internal improvement by rail roads, canals, & c. 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 2.5 x 5.5 cm. | Election ticket with image of a primitive locomotive pulling two freight cars.- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4.8 x 5.6 cm. | Election ticket with image of anchor, bales, and barrels on a shore, and sailing vessels beyond. Trunk in foreground is labeled "Edes Print" (printer's imprint)?- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. American system. Speed the plough, the loom & the mattock 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 2.3 x 3.3 cm. | Election ticket with image of an anvil and hammer.- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJackson ticket. "Firm united let us be, rallying round our Hickory tree" 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 3.2 x 3.2 cm. | Election ticket with image of a hickory tree.- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFor Assembly. Luke Tiernan, George R. Richardson. 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 3.6 cm. | An illustrated election ticket for Luke Tiernan and George R. Richardson, administration candidates for Baltimore delegates to the Maryland General Assembly in 1828. The ticket bears a woodcut emblem of a flexed arm holding a hammer, framed by a wreath of oak leaves.- Date: 1828-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSome account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson One of the well-known "coffin hand bills" originated by Republican editor John Binns in his campaign against presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. The six coffins across the top of the broadside represent six militiamen executed under Jackson's orders during the Creek War in 1813. Other coffins represent soldiers and Indians allegedly condemned and executed by Jackson. The broadside's text is a catalog of these and…- Contributor: Binns, John
- Date: 1828
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Photo, Print, DrawingDemocratic ticket. Stop Van!!! 1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 6.4 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man, possibly Van Buren, bettering another candidate in a race on hogs. The losing rider shouts,…- Date: 1836-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDemocratic ticket. Liberty & equal rights 1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 6.2 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio's Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a wood-engraving of Van Buren as the "Little Magician," a nickname he acquired for his political adroitness. Dressed in a costume…- Date: 1836-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJinnoowine [i.e. "genuine"] Johnson ticket. "Carrying the war into Africa" 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress ; 9.3 x 6.8 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for the presidential campaign of 1836. Oddly, the ticket lists Ohio's Democratic electors for Van Buren while making a vicious and obscene slur on the wife of his running-mate Richard M. Johnson. It seems to reflect the widespread internal dissatisfaction with the party's choice of Johnson as…- Date: 1836-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDemocratic ticket. Going the whole hog 1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 5.8 x 3.4 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man carrying a hog, and uttering the Democratic campaign slogan "Going the whole Hog." The hog…- Date: 1836-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe honest statesman, his country's steadfast friend. Harry of the West 1 print : engraving on silk ; 11.2 x 5.8 cm. (image) | Campaign badge produced for the Whig National Convention held at Baltimore in May 1844. A bust-length portrait of Whig candidate Henry Clay appears in an oval, against a backdrop of American flags. The oval is surmounted by arrows, an olive branch, and a shield held by an eagle. Above the eagle,…- Contributor: Bannerman, William W.
- Date: 1844-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe people's welfare my reward 1 print : engraving on silk ; 18.5 x 7.2 cm. (fabric) | Another Whig campaign badge, featuring a bust-length portrait of presidential candidate Henry Clay, with books, drapery, and the base of a column in the background. Above Clay's portrait is the motto: "The Peoples Welfare---My Reward." Below the portrait is a statement by Clay, conveying his campaign themes of support for protectionism…- Date: 1844-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFederal-Abolition-Whig trap, to catch voters in 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 10.6 x 11.5 cm. (image), 32.1 x 19.2 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated anti-Whig broadside, designed to combat the "Log Cabin campaign" tactics of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The text warns the people of New Orleans of Whig election propaganda: "People of Louisiana, above you have an accurate representation of the federal "Log-Cabin" Trap, invented…- Date: 1840-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWhy dont you take it? 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25 x 40 cm. (image) | In February 1861 Washington was alarmed by rumors that secessionists planned to seize the city and make it the capital of the Confederacy. The print may have been produced in that context, or during Lincoln's call to arms and rather anxious military build-up of the capital in April. Here, General…- Contributor: Vent, Starr & Co. - Beard, Frank T.
- Date: 1861-01-01