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Grand National Liberal Republican banner for 1872
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A facsimile of an ornate cloth banner for Liberal Republican candidates Horace Greeley and Benjamin Gratz Brown. At the top of the banner, which is suspended from a crossbar, is an eagle holding a streamer inscribed with mottoes of the campaign: "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Universal Amnesty and Impartial Suffrage." Below is Columbia or Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap and holding an American flag and cornucopia. She stands on a shore with a steamship in the distance. At her feet are symbols of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Arts--a plough, threshed wheat, an anchor, and a column. In the banner's center are bust portraits of the two candidates.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2721
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1872-3.
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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