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![Jno C. Fremont [and] William L. Dayton. The champions of freedom! / from a photograph by [Marcus] Root ; on stone & published by C.E. Lewis, 208 Main St., Buffalo.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTYvMDEvMDEvam5vLWMtZnJlbW9udC1hbmQtd20tbC1kYXl0b24tdGhlLWNoYW1waW9ucy1vZi1mcmVlZG9tLWZyb20tYS1waG90b2dyYXBoLWJ5LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Jno C. Fremont [and] William L. Dayton. The champions of freedom! / from a photograph by [Marcus] Root ; on stone & published by C.E. Lewis, 208 Main St., Buffalo.")
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Print shows a campaign banner for the 1876 Republican presidential ticket. Bust portraits of Ohio governor Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler are framed with laurel wreaths. Above them hang swags of drapery with tassels. A bald eagle rests on the top of the portraits, flanked by four American flags, and holds part of one of the flags in his beak. Above him the words "Liberty and Union" appear in an aureole of light. Between the portraits is a cornucopia, and below each of them a bundle of fasces. A similar banner was produced by Currier & Ives for the Democratic ticket the same year. (See "Grand National Democratic Banner," no. 1876-3.)
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2722
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1876-1.
Exhibited: Presidential Inaugurations, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005.
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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