Collection Items

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    Photo, Print, Drawing
    H. 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
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    The 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 ... 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 51 x 35 cm. (image) | 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...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1866
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    The 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) - Clark, Jonathan - Packard, R. - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1812
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    Our 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
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    City of New York. Mordecai M. Noah, of No. 57, Franklin-Street, being duly sworn . . . 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 53.6 x 44.5 cm. (sheet). | 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...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1828
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    Am 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
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    [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
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    To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-President, John C. Calhoun 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 1.3 x 4.6 cm. | Election ticket for Jackson delegates from various Ohio counties in the presidential contest of 1828, illustrated with an image of a straw broom. The broom, a traditional pictorial and literary symbol of reform, is linked here to one of the mythological labors of Hercules -- his cleansing of the...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1828
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    Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833 1 print : woodcut with letterpress and type ornaments on wove papers ; 10 x 16 cm. | The broadside declaration is illustrated with a headpiece of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion as two astonished elders look on. Beneath the woodcut is the line, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." On...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilbert, Reuben S. - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Merrihew and Gunn
    • Date: 1833
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    How Columbia receives McClellan's salutation from the Chicago platform. Columbia repudiates Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan's endorsement of the platform devised at the August 1864 Democratic convention in Chicago. McClellan and his running mate George Hunt Pendleton are shown standing on a platform labeled "Right of Secession. Anti Coercion. The War [...] a Crime and a Failure. Cessation of Hostilities. Pity (Not [...] Honor) for the Soldier", which is resting on (i.e.,...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1864
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    The constitutional amendment! 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 36.4 x 52.5 cm. (image) | 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...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1866
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    The two platforms 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 44.4 x 57.2 cm. (image) | 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...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1866
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    Jackson delegate ticket. No "favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride us legitimately by the grace of God" 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 5.8 cm. | Election ticket with Democratic slate for governor and other Virginia state offices. The vignette illustration includes the seal of the state of Virginia with an eagle and cornucopiae. Below the vignette is the motto; "No bargain, sale or management--no war, famine, pestilence or scourge--no safe precedents. Right of Instruction."...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1828
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    Letter from Thomas Jefferson, to Mr. Weightman, late Mayor of Washington 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 7.6 x 12.6 cm. (wood-engraving) | An allegory of printing and liberty, illustrating a broadside of a June 24, 1826, letter from Thomas Jefferson on American democracy. The female figure of Liberty displays to the Four Continents the art of printing. Liberty stands to the right of a hand printing press over which hovers...
    • Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Anderson, Alexander - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
    • Date: 1826
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    For 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Jackson 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
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    Some account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 55.7 x 38.5 cm. (sheet) | 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...
    • Contributor: Binns, John
    • Date: 1828
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    Democratic 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
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    Democratic 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
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    Jinnoowine [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