democratic party us, 19th century

The Democratic funeral of 1848 - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... More

Joseph E. Baker - How free ballot is protected!

The artist charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and extremism in their efforts to defeat Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan. Oblique reference is also made to Lincoln's supposed a... More

Presidential campaign, 1864. Candidates for President and Vice-Preside...

Print shows bust portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Andrew Johnson, and George H. Pendleton above a map of the United States, with bust portraits of the previous 15 presidents with George Washin... More

Scales, Honorable Alfred Moore, Rep of N.C. Presidential elector on De...

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wilson, Honorable James Falconer of Iowa, Delegate to Democratic Nat. ...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seymour and Blair - Public domain portrait print

Photograph of drawing shows Horotio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, 1868 Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates, half-length portrait, Seymour facing front, Blair facing left.

To the friends of Greeley and Brown

An illustrated cover for a collection of Democratic campaign songs. Liberal Republican presidential candidate Horace Greeley and running mate Benjamin Gratz Brown appear in oval bust portraits framed by ivy. Ab... More

The citizens chart of political parties in the campaign of 1872

Political cartoon riddiculing the Democratic party adn praising Grant & Wilson. Lithograph by Strobridge & Co., copyrighted by P.G. Dick. Reference copy may be in LOT 4406 (1872). This record contains unverifie... More

An Experiment worth trying / / Th. Nast. Inflation bridge of (sighs) s...

One cartoon shows Indian on wheeled platform in front of War Dept. with Interior Dept. across the street. The other cartoon shows two men lifting rag baby to "Inflation bridge (sighs) size, with sign "Democrati... More

Blundering again! / Gillam., Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

Print shows a group of Democrats on a log raft that is breaking up within sight of land, with two logs labeled "New Jersey [and] New York" coming loose and drifting away; there is a small sail labeled "Democra[... More

Delilah Randall betrays the democratic Samson / Gillam.

Illustration shows Samuel J. "Delilah" Randall sitting in a chair labeled "Protection", holding scissors labeled "41 Democrats" in one hand and hair labeled "Tariff Reform Bill" in the other, his feet are resti... More

The rival May parties / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

Print shows hopeful presidential candidates dancing around the "Republican Presidential Nomination" maypole, hanging onto ribbons labeled "New York" (Levi P. Morton), "Maine" (Thomas B. Reed), "Indiana" (Benjam... More

A hard game of "follow your leader" / Keppler.

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan leading a donkey labeled "Dem" loaded down with a platform, including bunting, labeled "Democratic Platform" and boxes labeled "Anti-expansion," "Anti-trust," and "Free... More

William R. King: democratic candidate for Vice President of the United...

After a daguerreotype by Mathew B. Brady. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7238

A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor

Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. Though indeed a confirmed bachelor, Buchanan in reality was hardly needy. After serving as American minis... More

George Hunt - McClellan and Pendleton / Oakley & Tompson lith., Boston...

Campaign ephemera for Democratic presidential candidates George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of George B. McClellan. Copyright by Francis Morandi. .

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...

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Joseph Holt Papers: Financial Papers, 1822-1894; Ledgers; Chilton & Re...

The great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) ov...

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 pres... More

[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Republican Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1810-1811; Congressman, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 1823-1825; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-1829; Whig Senator, 1831-1842, 1849-1852; Democratic Republican candidate for ... More

[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right]

Lawyer; Democratic Congressman from Alabama (Senator, 1853-1861); Confederate Senate, 1861-1863 Identification from woodcut by A.F. after Brady in Harper's Weekly, February 25, 1860, page 116. Scratched on back... More

Social qualities of our candidate, Political Cartoon

Reports of his alcoholism haunted Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce during the 1852 campaign. The matter is taken up here with mocking reference to the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, a landmark prohibition measur... More

The political farce of 1876. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing bust portraits of eight men, identified as, clockwise from top, Oliver P. Morton, James A. Garfield, George F. Hoar, William Strong, Joseph P. Bradley, Samuel F. Miller, George F. Edmunds, and Fre... More

Treasury note, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

A parody of the often worthless fractional currencies or "shinplasters" issued by banks, businesses, and municipalities in lieu of coin. These fractional notes proliferated during the Panic of 1837 with the eme... More

[Stephen Arnold Douglas, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left...

Democratic Congressman from Illinois, 1843-1847; Senator, 1847-1861. Hallmark: J ROUSSEAU & CO. Written on back of plate: Douglas Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978,... More

[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, w...

Democratic Congressman from New York, 1833-1837, 1839-1841. Scratched on back of plate: 160; Judge Vanderpool. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Lib... More

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 buffalo hunt - Drawing. Public domain image.

An optimistic view of the presidential prospects of Martin Van Buren, nominated at the Free Soil Party's August 1848 convention in Buffalo, New York. Here Van Buren rides a buffalo and thumbs his nose as he se... More

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

[Bust of Stephen Douglas over Northern Democratic Party's presidential...

Printed envelope. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Emblems; Douglas, Stephen A.; Politics Pres. Campaigns; Politics Parties.

George Hunt - Democracy. 1832. 1864., Confederate States of America.

Two scenes contrast Democratic presidential candidate of 1832 Andrew Jackson and 1864 George B. McClellan. McClellan is portrayed as weak and conciliatory toward the South, whereas his earlier counterpart's st... More

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

White, Honorable Joseph Worthington, Rep of Ohio, Delegate to Democrat...

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steele, Honorable Walter Leak of N.C. Delegate to the Democratic Natio...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The political mill - putting them into the hopper / A.B.F.

Political cartoon shows Republican National Chairman Edwin D. Morgan putting favored candidate James G. Blaine, the winning candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, and Oliver P. Morton, Roscoe Conkling, Benjamin H. Bris... More

Stranger things have happened. Hold on, and you may walk over the slug...

Cartoon showing Thomas F. Bayard holding on to tail of Democratic donkey, which is going over cliff, and man standing by Republican elephant, which is lying on ground; the White House in background, with flag "... More

Uncle Sam's neglected farm / J. Keppler.

Print shows Puck's "Independent Party" figure, holding a hoe labeled "Civil Service Reform" and talking to Uncle Sam who is sitting on a fence while two figures argue on the right, one is labeled "Democrat, Bou... More

A new bull in the ring / F. Graetz.

Print shows Chester A. Arthur riding the Republican elephant tossed high in the air in a "Political Arena", the elephant is patched with scandals labeled "Credit Mobilier, Collusion with Monopolies, Back Pay Gr... More

"Take the next car!" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows a street railroad car labeled "Republican Protection Line" and "Congress 47" with a crowd of men standing on the rear platform, among them is the conductor labeled "Keifer" and Frank "Hiscock... More

Nothing but wind! / F. Opper. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows two women, one, on the left, labeled "Republican Party" wearing a hat labeled "War Record" and using a bellows to pump "Reform, Purity and Honesty!!" into the ear of a man labeled "Independen... More

May the country be spared this pitiful sight! / Dalrymple.

Print shows a group of Democrats, identified as "Hill, Murphy, Vest, Bland, Matthews, Morgan, Harris, Crisp, Tillman, Altgeld, Campbell, [and] Stevenson", some wear fezes, others are wearing turbans and other a... More

A down-hill movement / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a wagon labeled "Free Silver" filled with a group of "free silver" supporters identified as "Tillman, Boies, Sheehan, Bland, Blackburn, Bryan, Sewall, Pattison, Sibley, Jones, Geo. Fred Williams, Pe... More

A troublesome infant - he grows faster than his god-fathers expected /...

Print shows a crying infant labeled "Dingley Tariff" wearing clothing labeled "Deficit from July 1st to Nov. 15th $44,411,144", sitting in a high chair, holding a tiny pair of pants labeled "Dingley Tariff". A ... More

Opening of the Democratic dime museum for 1900 / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows John P. Jones as a barker at a circus sideshow that features "The Gold Bug, The Money Devil, The Injunction Evil [labeled] U.S. Supreme Court, The Boy Wonder [William Jennings Bryan], Educated Wild ... 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

Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Financial Papers, 1822-1894; Bills and receipts; 1...

Gideon Welles Papers: Correspondence, 1820-1878; 1846, July 6-1847, Ma...

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial r...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Pu... More

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial r...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Pu... More

Red hot Republicans on the Democratic gridiron. "The San Domingo war d...

An attack on several of the liberal Republicans who opposed the Grant administration's move to annex Santo Domingo. At left the devil (only his horns, tail, and cloven hoof can be seen) roasts six Republicans o... More

The political gymnasium. American Civil War 1861-1865.

A general parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign. At the far left stands Constitutional Union party vice presidential candidate Edward Everett, as a muscle man ... More

Grand national Whig banner: press onward / lith. & pub. by N. Currier ...

Print shows a campaign banner for Whig Party candidates in the national election of 1848. The banner, promoting Zachary Taylor and his vice presidential running mate Millard Fillmore, is almost identical to Cur... More

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

Polk in his extremity - Political cartoon, public domain image

Henry Clay's easy ascent to the presidency here is in contrast to the serious difficulties experienced by his Democratic opponent James K. Polk. Clay has reached the top of a large pole and has the "Civic Crow... More

The great American tanner / Thomas Worth. sketch ; on stone by [John] ...

An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Before the war Grant had worked in his family's leather goods establishment in Galena, ... More

Our home defenders, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Republican Party presidential campaign poster shows head-and-shoulder portraits of William McKinley holding U.S. flag and standing on the gold coin of "sound money," held up by a group of men in front of the sh... More

[Azariah C. Flagg, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Editor of the Plattsburg, N.Y. Republican; financial advisor to the N.Y. state Democratic party; comptroller of N.Y. state and New York City. Identification from engraving by J.C. Buttre after a different dague... More

[Henry S. Foote, half-length portrait, slightly to the right]

Democratic Senator from Mississippi, 1847-1852; Governor of Mississippi, 1852-1854; Superindentent of the U.S. Mint at New Orleans. Scratched on back of plate: 438; Sen. Henry S. Foote, Miss. Hallmark: [asteris... More

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

The Chicago platform and candidate, Confederate States of America.

McClellan was branded a hypocrite by many critics who saw his public stance on the war issue as ambiguous and deceptive. Nominated because of his military record, he nevertheless ran on a peace platform, writte... More

[Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

President of the United States. Copy daguerreotype. Scratched on face of plate: 151; Andrew Jackson. Scratched on back of plate: 43. Reproduced as frontispiece in the Democratic Review for September 1845 and la... More

Social qualities of our candidate, Political Cartoon

Reports of his alcoholism haunted Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce during the 1852 campaign. The matter is taken up here with mocking reference to the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, a landmark prohibition measur... 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

A contested seat, US Democratic party

The artist anticipates a Whig victory in the 1852 presidential contest. The scene takes place in an interior, carpeted or tiled with a grid-and-star pattern. At left, Whig candidate Winfield Scott, in military ... More

Honorable John C. Breckinridge: of Kentucky, national democratic candi...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3155

Grand National Democratic banner, US Democratic party

Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, almost identical to Currier & Ives's "Grand National Republican Banner" (no. 1876-1.) The Tilden-Hendricks banne... More

The death of locofocoism - Political cartoon, public domain image

In his satire Johnston celebrates the defeat of "Loco Foco," i.e., radical Democratic interests, in the presidential election of 1840. The "Loco Focos" were the largely working-class constituency who supported... More

North Bend game cock - Political cartoon, public domain image

A Whig campaign print glorifying presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The title derives from the candidate's farm on the North Bend of the Ohio River. The game cock has a dual significance: as an all... More

Matty meeting the Texas question, Political Cartoon

A satire on the Democrats' approach to the delicate question of the annexation of Texas. In marked contrast to his portrayal of the issue as a beautiful woman in "Virtuous Harry" (no. 1844-27), the artist here ... More

Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president

Print shows a Whig campaign banner for the 1848 presidential election. In the center of a facsimile cloth banner is an oval bust portrait of candidate Zachary Taylor in military uniform. Surrounding the oval, o... More

[Charles Hazen Peaslee, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the le...

Democratic Congressman from New Hampshire, 1847-1853. Alternative identification: William King Sebastian, 1814-1865. Scratched on face of plate: 213; Sebastian, Sen. [illegible] Scratched on back of plate: 162.... More

[James Cameron Allen, Democrat congressman from Illinois, full-length ...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting of the Southern seceeders from the Democratic Convention at St...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The greatest show on earth - "who can ride the mule?" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows a circus performance under the big top with Uncle Sam as ringmaster for a show with a bucking bronco or donkey labeled "Tariff Question"; the donkey has already thrown one man labeled "Democr... More

A new way of "waking" the Democratic shaughraun / Gillam.

Print shows a small, rustic room crowded with members of the Democratic Party, some dressed as old women, others drinking and smoking clay pipes; one man, the "Shaughraun" labeled "Democratic Party" is lying on... More

The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" b...

After a large painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach showing the "destruction of Jerusalem", this print shows the demise of the Republican Party with various Republicans, Mugwumps, Democrats, and allegorical figures,... More

The rehabilitation of the Democratic party / Gillam.

Illustration shows a scene inside "Cleveland's Clothing Establishment" where President Cleveland and Thomas F. Bayard are fitting a man labeled "Reform Democracy" with the "Thos. Jefferson Pattern", while cabin... More

Making the most of it / Gillam.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Hill" holding a large magnifying glass labeled "Democratic Presss Magnifier" between a donkey with blinders labeled "N.Y. Democracy" and a tiny shock of hay labeled "Cleveland'... More

Coroner Harrison is a little too previous / Dalrymple.

Print shows Uncle Sam reclining in a chair with his feet resting on a foot stool, on a table next to him are medications labeled "Tariff Reform Tonic" and "Repeal of Sherman Silver Law Elixir", on the floor nex... More

"I am a Democrat!" / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows David B. "Hill" holding a knife labeled "Spite" and sneaking up behind a woman labeled "National Democratic Party" who is sitting at a table, reading a paper labeled "Wilson Bill". Illus. from Puck... More

Rainsford is right - the rich must be regulated / C.J.T.

Print shows a democratic approach to the mingling of social classes with vignettes showing the rich buying their clothes from "honest merchants" regardless how poorly they will fit, eating at "plain oyster-hous... More

The Dingley millennium - it has made everybody happy / Dalrymple.

Print shows a vignette cartoon with Marcus Hanna at center wearing robes labeled "Marcus Aurelius Hanna" and a top hat with laurel wreath and ribbons labeled "Senatorship 1898", standing next to a safe labeled ... More

A much-needed comedy element in the campaign of 1900 / Dalrymple.

Illustration showing Admiral George Dewey as a circus clown, with William Jennings Bryan on a donkey labeled "Dem Party" and William McKinley on an elephant labeled "GOP" under the big top of a circus; Puck, as... More

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1787-1868; ...

[William Jennings Bryan, Democratic party presidential candidate, thre...

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Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836

A figurative portrayal -- clearly sympathetic to the Whig party -- of the 1836 presidential election contest as a horse race between four candidates. The four are identified in the legend as (left to right): "O... More

[Fernando Wood, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to left, e...

Photo shows Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York, 1855-57 and 1860-62, and Democratic Representative to Congress for New York state, 1841-1843, 1863-1865, and 1867-1881. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Scratched on... More

Grand National Republican banner, US Democratic party

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 dra... More

Polk in his extremity - Public domain dedication image

Henry Clay's easy ascent to the presidency here is in contrast to the serious difficulties experienced by his Democratic opponent James K. Polk. Clay has reached the top of a large pole and has the "Civic Crow... More

[John McLean, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, wea...

Democratic congressman from Ohio, 1813-1816; U.S. Postmaster General, 1823-1829; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1829-1861. Purchase; Wm. Hallam Webber; 1996. (DLC/PP-1996:033). Forms part of: Dagu... More

National Democratic Republican nomination / lith. of Endicott, 152 Ful...

A campaign broadside for Democratic candidates Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson, produced for the presidential election of 1840. It is illustrated with: 1) a vignette of the American eagle in a halo of star... More

[David Rice Atchison, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to l...

Democratic Senator from Missouri, 1843-1855. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description