Polk's dream Historic map, Library of Congress
Here Clay is critical of James K. Polk's public advocacy of the 54.40 parallel as the northern boundary of American territory in Oregon. The cartoon also alludes to widespread uncertainty as to the course the ... More
The morning after the election _ November 1856.
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The buck chase of 1856 - Political cartoon, public domain image
Democratic candidate James Buchanan, as a buck deer, crosses the finish line of a racecourse ahead of competitors Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont. Spectators cheer in the stands behind. Fillmore appears a... More
Shall I vote for ten cents a day?
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James Buchanan / daguerrotype by Brady ; engraved by J.C. Buttre.
James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Engraved for the U.S. Dem. Review.
How Columbia receives McLellan'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. The text below the picture provides the... More
Honorable James Buchanan, democratic candidate for the presidency, 185...
James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Democratic platform illustrated, Political Cartoon
Another attack on the 1856 Democratic platform as pro-South and proslavery. The Buchanan-Breckenridge ticket is reviled on the basis of recent developments occurring during the outgoing Pierce administration. I... More
![Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sadd.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDQvdW5pb24tcGFpbnRlZC1ieS10b21wa2lucy1oLW1hdHRlc29uLWVuZ3JhdmVkLWJ5LWhlbnJ5LXMtc2FkZC0yMTZhYTAtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sadd.")
Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sad...
A symbolic group portrait eulogizing recent legislative efforts, notably the Compromise of 1850, to preserve the Union. The work is in some respects a memorial to the triumvirate of senior American legislators:... More
James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the Un...
Print shows James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 444 Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. Aug 2, 1856. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / c... More
"Uncle Sam" making new arrangements, Political Cartoon
Probably issued late in the campaign, the print seems to express the growing confidence among Republicans in the election of their candidate Abraham Lincoln. It may also be that like "The National Game" (no. 18... More
![[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvamFtZXMtYnVjaGFuYW4taGVhZC1hbmQtc2hvdWxkZXJzLXBvcnRyYWl0LWZhY2luZy1mcm9udC04YTQ4YjktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]")
[James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
U.S. President. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Funeral obsequies of free-trade, Political Cartoon
A gloomy view of the effects of the Polk administration's Tariff of 1846. The artist echoes Whig condemnation of the measure as adverse to American trade. A funeral cortege, composed of administration supporter... More
The great presidential race of 1856.
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Storming the castle. "Old Abe" on guard.
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"Uncle Sam" making new arrangements, Political Cartoon
Probably issued late in the campaign, the print seems to express the growing confidence among Republicans in the election of their candidate Abraham Lincoln. It may also be that like "The National Game" (no. 18... More
The right man for the right place
Another satire complimentary to Fillmore, whose campaign slogan was "the right man in the right place." Fillmore was nominated at the American party's February 22 convention in Philadelphia. Here he is the embo... More
James Buchanan, Democratic candidate for President of the United State...
Proof for a large woodcut campaign poster or banner for Democratic presidential nominee James Buchanan. A bust-length portrait of Buchanan (apparently taken from Mathew Brady's 1854 daguerreotype portrait) is f... More
Political game of brag. Shew of hands
The artist resorts to the familiar metaphor of a card game for the presidential stakes in his rendition of the 1848 contest. The major contenders play a game of "brag" (an early form of poker). Around the tabl... More
Inauguration ball in the immense building erected for the purpose in J...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 3, 1857 March 21, p. 241. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Buchanan, James Inauguration, 1857.
![Presidents of the United States, [Bouclet & Feusier portraits of the Presidents].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjEvMDEvMDEvcHJlc2lkZW50cy1vZi10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy1ib3VjbGV0LWFuZC1mZXVzaWVyLXBvcnRyYWl0cy1vZi10aGUtcHJlc2lkZW50cy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/52/webp "Presidents of the United States, [Bouclet & Feusier portraits of the Presidents].")
Presidents of the United States, [Bouclet & Feusier portraits of the P...
Portrays 16 Presidents. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Photographs of Construction of U. S. Capitol, November 16 1858, and of...
Forms part of Montgomery C. Meigs Papers; for additional information, see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021 For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Photographs of Constructio... More
Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1838-1868; 1...
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![New York Tribune, [newspaper]. June 16, 1860.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjAvMDEvMDEvbmV3LXlvcmstdHJpYnVuZS1uZXdzcGFwZXItanVuZS0xNi0xODYwLTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/52/webp "New York Tribune, [newspaper]. June 16, 1860.")
New York Tribune, [newspaper]. June 16, 1860.
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The right man for the right place
Another satire complimentary to Fillmore, whose campaign slogan was "the right man in the right place." Fillmore was nominated at the American party's February 22 convention in Philadelphia. Here he is the embo... More
The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th of Nov. 1856 fo...
The familiar metaphor of the presidential contest as a boxing match is invoked once again. (For an earlier example see "Set to Between the Champion Old Tip and the Swell Dutchman of Kinderhook," no. 1836-12.) T... More
The Ostend doctrine. Practical Democrats carrying out the principle
The Ostend Manifesto, advocated by American minister to England James Buchanan, minister to Spain Pierre Soule, and John Y. Mason, minister to France, urged the purchase or (if necessary) seizure of Cuba from S... More
![President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTAvcHJlc2lkZW50LWxpbmNvbG4td3JpdGluZy10aGUtcHJvY2xhbWF0aW9uLW9mLWZyZWVkb20tamFudWFyeS0xc3QtMTg2My1wYWludGVkLWNlZDkwMC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.")
President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...
A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863. In a ... More
Political chart. Presidential campaign, 1860
Campaign broadside presenting portraits and platforms of all candidates as well as portraits of the 15 previous Presidents.
![Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sadd.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDQvdW5pb24tcGFpbnRlZC1ieS10b21wa2lucy1oLW1hdHRlc29uLWVuZ3JhdmVkLWJ5LWhlbnJ5LXMtc2FkZC04N2VhOGUtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sadd.")
Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sad...
A symbolic group portrait eulogizing recent legislative efforts, notably the Compromise of 1850, to preserve the Union. The work is in some respects a memorial to the triumvirate of senior American legislators:... More
Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...
A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More
The morning after the election--November 1856
The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & ... More
James Buchanan / Engraved by J.C. Buttre.
James Buchanan, half-length portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![The inauguration procession in honor of President Buchanan passing through [...]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDIvdGhlLWluYXVndXJhdGlvbi1wcm9jZXNzaW9uLWluLWhvbm9yLW9mLXByZXNpZGVudC1idWNoYW5hbi1wYXNzaW5nLXRocm91Z2gtMGJlZjI2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/31/webp "The inauguration procession in honor of President Buchanan passing through [...]")
The inauguration procession in honor of President Buchanan passing thr...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 3, 1857 March 21, p. 240. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Buchanan, James Inauguration, 1857.
The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott
A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More
Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep
The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More
James Buchanan / painted by J. Eichholz ; engraved by J. Sartain.
Print showing James Buchanan, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding papers; above facsimile signature. The 1834 painting by Jacob Eichholtz is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Mu... More
Journal Entries of Montgomery C. Meigs, July 12, 1854 through December...
For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Journal Entries of Montgomery C. Meigs, July 12, 1854 through December 31, 1855, written in shorthand by Meigs and with illustrations by Meigs. ... More
![[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvamFtZXMtYnVjaGFuYW4taGFsZi1sZW5ndGgtcG9ydHJhaXQtdGhyZWUtcXVhcnRlcnMtdG8tdGhlLWxlZnQtZWNhYmZhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]")
[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]
U.S. President. Identification from an engraving by S.F. Baker in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, May 3, 1856, p. 321. Scratched on back of plate: 428. Corners trimmed. DAG no. 225 is a possible copy of this i... More
![[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTAvMDEvMDEvamFtZXMtYnVjaGFuYW4tYnVzdC1wb3J0cmFpdC1mYWNpbmctcmlnaHQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/50/webp "[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]")
[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]
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Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler.
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A democratic indignation meeting / after a sketch by our special artis...
Print shows the ghost of Thomas Jefferson speaking to a gathering of the ghosts of John Tyler, Lewis Cass, James K. Polk, Stephen A. Douglas, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Jackson, William L. Marcy, Samuel J. Tilden,... More
James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States
Print shows James Buchanan, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, with drapery and the base of a pillar in the background. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI :... More
"Buck" taking the "pot" - Drawing. Public domain image.
A pro-Buchanan satire, critical of the divisive or sectionalist appeal of the other two presidential contenders in the 1856 race. "Buck" or Buchanan (left) has evidently won a card game over Fremont (fallen at ... More
Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler
The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr... More
The great Presidential race of 1856
An animated comic scene ridiculing the Democratic and American party candidates. In the foreground is a somewhat rickety wooden "Democratic Platform," into which presidential candidate James Buchanan has just r... More
Liberty. The fair maid of Kansas in the hands of the "border ruffians"...
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Who is responsible for the war? Who accountable for its horrors and de...
Extracts from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (now Vice-President of the Confederate States), delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, on the 31st day of January, 1861. Who commenced the war?… catalo... More
Photographs of Construction of U. S. Capitol, November 16 1858, and of...
Forms part of Montgomery C. Meigs Papers; for additional information, see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021 For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Photographs of Constructio... More
The Democratic platform, US Democratic party
Again the 1856 Democrats are characterized as friendly to proslavery interests. Old guard Democrats Martin Van Buren and Thomas Hart Benton are also resurrected for abuse here. Van Buren appears as a fox, lurki... More
![President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTAvcHJlc2lkZW50LWxpbmNvbG4td3JpdGluZy10aGUtcHJvY2xhbWF0aW9uLW9mLWZyZWVkb20tamFudWFyeS0xc3QtMTg2My1wYWludGVkLWJhZDZiNS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.")
President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...
A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863. In a ... More
The inaugural procession at Washington passing the gate of the Capitol...
Shows President-elect Lincoln and President Buchanan (tipping his top hat) amidst cheering crowd before west gate at base of Capitol grounds, on their way to the Capitol for Lincoln's first inauguration. Illus.... More
Expansion & contraction. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A ludicrous contrast of two influential Democrats, the obese Alabama Representative Dixon Hall Lewis and gaunt "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair. The artist comments upon the unlikely alliance established in... More
![[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDMvamFtZXMtYnVjaGFuYW4tYnVzdC1wb3J0cmFpdC1mYWNpbmctcmlnaHQtZDlhZDBlLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]")
[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]
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The folly of secession. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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I am glad, I am out of the scrape!
An optimistic Unionist boast, issued early in Lincoln's presidency, predicting the summary defeat of the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln (at left) stands over the shield of the United States and a bald eagle, and ... More
![[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvamFtZXMtYnVjaGFuYW4taGFsZi1sZW5ndGgtcG9ydHJhaXQtdGhyZWUtcXVhcnRlcnMtdG8tdGhlLWxlZnQtYjBiZjE3LTEwMjQuanBn/40/56/webp "[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]")
[James Buchanan, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]
U.S. President. Identification from an engraving by S.F. Baker in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, May 3, 1856, p. 321. Scratched on back of plate: 428. Corners trimmed. DAG no. 225 is a possible copy of this i... More
James Buchanan, Democratic candidate for President of the United State...
Proof for a large woodcut campaign poster or banner for Democratic presidential nominee James Buchanan. A bust-length portrait of Buchanan (apparently taken from Mathew Brady's 1854 daguerreotype portrait) is f... More
The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th Nov.1856; for o...
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James Buchanan / engraved by permission, from the original in the poss...
James Buchanan, full-length portrait, standing by table, facing left, holding book.
The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.
South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More
![President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTAvcHJlc2lkZW50LWxpbmNvbG4td3JpdGluZy10aGUtcHJvY2xhbWF0aW9uLW9mLWZyZWVkb20tamFudWFyeS0xc3QtMTg2My1wYWludGVkLTI1YjIwNC02NDAuanBn/40/31/webp "President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1863 / painted by [David Gilmour] Blythe ; lithogr. and printed in colors by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Cincinnati, O.")
President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...
A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863. In a ... More
Shall I vote for ten cents a day?
A campaign parody somewhat favorable to Republican candidate John C. Fremont, but suggesting a conspiracy between Fremont and Millard Fillmore to defeat Democrat James Buchanan. Buchanan's nickname "Ten Cent Ji... More
![[Full page of advertisements and cartoon, "A new application of the Rarey System", showing James Buchanan holding strap "coercion" and kicking horse "Miss South Carolina"]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMTEvZnVsbC1wYWdlLW9mLWFkdmVydGlzZW1lbnRzLWFuZC1jYXJ0b29uLWEtbmV3LWFwcGxpY2F0aW9uLW9mLXRoZS1yYXJleS1zeXN0ZW0tYzBkNDdmLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "[Full page of advertisements and cartoon, \"A new application of the Rarey System\", showing James Buchanan holding strap \"coercion\" and kicking horse \"Miss South Carolina\"]")
[Full page of advertisements and cartoon, "A new application of the Ra...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, no. 270 (1861 Jan. 26), p. 160.
Photographs of Construction of U. S. Capitol, November 16 1858, and of...
Forms part of Montgomery C. Meigs Papers; for additional information, see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021 For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Photographs of Constructio... More
Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 3, Additional Correspondence, 1820-1869...
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Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 5, Messages to Congress, 1853-1856; 185...
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Photographs of Construction of U. S. Capitol, November 16 1858, and of...
Forms part of Montgomery C. Meigs Papers; for additional information, see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021 For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Photographs of Constructio... More
Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 3, Additional Correspondence, 1820-1869...
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