Grand, national, democratic banner - press onward - portraits from daguerreotype
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 31 x 23 cm (image), 45.5 x 34.2 cm (sheet) | Print shows a presidential campaign banner featuring bust portraits of candidates "For President Franklin Pierce" and "For Vice President William R. King" in ovals with laurel wreaths beneath a bust portrait of George Washington encircled with stars, and at the top, an eagle and the phrase "In…
Contributor:
N. Currier (Firm)
Date:1852-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Grand, national, democratic banner - press onward
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 29.7 x 23.3 cm (image), 44.3 x 32 cm (sheet) | Print shows a presidential campaign banner featuring bust portraits of candidates "Franklin Pierce" and "William R. King" in ovals with laurel wreaths beneath an eagle perched on a globe labeled "America" and above the phrase at bottom "The Democrats Choice for President & Vice President from 1853…
Contributor:
N. Currier (Firm)
Date:1852-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
The great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) over the Union Course 1852
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27.7 x 39.9 cm. | Satire on the presidential election of 1852, showing Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and Franklin Pierce competing in a footrace before a crowd of onlookers for a $100,000 prize (the four-year salary for a president) and "pickings." In the lead is Webster, who exclaims, "I can beat you both, and "walk…
Managing a candidate
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; sheet 32.7 x 48.8 cm. | A caustic portrayal of the abolitionist Whigs' manipulation of Winfield Scott during the 1852 campaign. Influential Whigs (left to right) New York "Times" editor Henry J. Raymond, "Tribune" editor Horace Greeley, and New York senator William Seward escort Scott across "Salt River" via the "Baltimore Bridge." The bridge is composed…