Hoboken Clay Club, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a Whig campaign badge produced for the Hoboken Clay Club featuring portraits of candidates Henry Clay (right) and Theodore Frelinghuysen (left). The portraits, in overlapping ovals, are surmounted by an eagle and a scroll inscribed "HOBOKEN CLAY CLUB." Below the portraits are two circular scenes showing Clay, "the Mill Boy" on horseback before a mill and (at right) cheered at a political rally near the Capitol as "The People's Choice."

"Entered ... 1844 ... Southern District of New-York, by R. Hemming, 31 Maiden Lane, N.Y."
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on July 22, 1844. Another impression in the Library's collection (no. 1844-7), lacking the lettering "Hoboken Clay Club," was deposited for copyright on June 3, 1844.
Sullivan and Fischer, no. HC-2 (similar badge)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1844-6.