The emblem of the free / B. Day, del.
Number three in a series of illustrated song-sheets published in New York by Samuel Canty. This example includes the words of a song by Canty entitled "The Emblem of the Free" and alternately "The Traitor's Dre... More
The champions of the people's right
Another large campaign broadside or "chart" for Tilden and Hendricks. (See also no. 1876-4.) The candidates' bust portraits appear in oval medallions enframed by lush foliage and flowers. A classical female fig... More
![For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn. Gratz. Brown ... / Henry Brueckner painted ; lith. by S[vobodin] Merinsky.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjQvZm9yLXByZXNpZGVudC1ob3JhY2UtZ3JlZWxleS1vZi1uZXcteW9yay1hbmQtZm9yLXZpY2UtcHJlc2lkZW50LWJlbmpuLWdyYXR6LWE0NzExNy02NDAuanBn/40/30/webp "For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn. Gratz. Brown ... / Henry Brueckner painted ; lith. by S[vobodin] Merinsky.")
For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn....
Print shows an unusually elaborate and imaginative campaign banner for Liberal Republican-Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley. The print contrasts scenes of war and mayhem from Ulysses S. Grant's p... More
The man of the people! Governor Horatio Seymour. Elected by ten thousa...
A dramatic apotheosis, commemorating Horatio Seymour's 1862 election as governor of New York. In the center is a bust portrait of Seymour with the word "Union" below. Above him in the sky is Liberty or Columbia... More
The re-union of the home of the brave and free! / by Samuel Canty.
A somewhat premature allegory of reconciliation between the North and South, extolling former Presidents Andrew Jackson and George Washington as defenders of the Union. Jackson (left) and Washington appear in t... More
Liberty. In the form of the goddess of youth; giving support to the ba...
An allegory of American liberty. Liberty, represented by a maiden in the form of the goddess Hebe, offers a cup to an eagle descending from the upper left. With her right foot she treads on chains, a scepter, a... More
Grand National Liberal Republican banner for 1872
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 insc... More
The outbreak of the rebellion in the United States 1861
A grand allegory of the Civil War in America, harshly critical of the Buchanan administration, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy. In the center stands Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap and a laurel wreath. She... More
Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More
![For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn. Gratz. Brown ... / Henry Brueckner painted ; lith. by S[vobodin] Merinsky.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjQvZm9yLXByZXNpZGVudC1ob3JhY2UtZ3JlZWxleS1vZi1uZXcteW9yay1hbmQtZm9yLXZpY2UtcHJlc2lkZW50LWJlbmpuLWdyYXR6LWQ4MmNiMC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn. Gratz. Brown ... / Henry Brueckner painted ; lith. by S[vobodin] Merinsky.")
For President Horace Greeley of New York and for Vice President Benjn....
Print shows an unusually elaborate and imaginative campaign banner for Liberal Republican-Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley. The print contrasts scenes of war and mayhem from Ulysses S. Grant's p... More
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 man of the people! Governor Horatio Seymour. Elected by ten thousa...
A dramatic apotheosis, commemorating Horatio Seymour's 1862 election as governor of New York. In the center is a bust portrait of Seymour with the word "Union" below. Above him in the sky is Liberty or Columbia... More
The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....
A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results / drawn by G.F. Kahl.
Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3.) A group of black men, on horseback and wearing top hats... More
![United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in colors by C[harles] Parsons ; printed by G. & W. Endicott.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDgvdW5pdGVkLWFtZXJpY2Fucy1vZi10aGUtc3RhdGUtb2YtbmV3LXlvcmstZGVzaWduZWQtYW5kLWxpdGhvZC1pbi1jb2xvcnMtYnktZmFkNzhiLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in colors by C[harles] Parsons ; printed by G. & W. Endicott.")
United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...
A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More
![Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjgvYXJtcy1vZi10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy1vZi1hbWVyaWNhLWplLWJha2VyLWpvc2VwaC1lLWJha2VyLWY4ZDU1Mi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/47/webp "Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].")
Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].
Print shows an elaborate martial allegory of the United States. Liberty or Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap and armed with sword, shield, and American flag, is enthroned in the clouds. The words "E Pluribus Unu... More
Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for president of the United Stat...
A print for a large campaign banner or poster for Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. It features a central roundel with a bust portrait of the candidate, flanked by standing deities Justice and ... More
Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and...
A memorial to the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, with distinctly pro-Democratic overtones. Below the title "Independence Declared" are bust portraits of the first eight Presidents, wit... More
Millard Fillmore, American candidate for president of the United State...
A large woodcut proof for a campaign banner or poster for the Native American party's 1856 presidential candidate. A bust portrait of Millard Fillmore appears in a roundel, flanked by allegorical figures of Jus... More
Grand National Liberal Republican banner for 1872
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 insc... More
Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty, and with the oth...
A strongly pro-Van Buren cartoon, espousing the antislavery platform of the Free Soil party and condemning Whigs and conservative Democrats alike. The artist also reflects the lingering bitterness among many De... More
![United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in colors by C[harles] Parsons ; printed by G. & W. Endicott.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDgvdW5pdGVkLWFtZXJpY2Fucy1vZi10aGUtc3RhdGUtb2YtbmV3LXlvcmstZGVzaWduZWQtYW5kLWxpdGhvZC1pbi1jb2xvcnMtYnktNDkyNjMyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/48/webp "United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in colors by C[harles] Parsons ; printed by G. & W. Endicott.")
United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...
A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More
Grand national union banner for 1864. Liberty, union and victory
Print shows a campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Andrew Johnson. A drawn curtain reveals bust portraits of the two candidates in roundels framed in oak l... More
Liberty. "Liberty brings to the earth justice and peace" / C. Inger.
A grand, pro-Union allegorical print, produced as a complimentary "Presentation Plate" for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" newspaper in 1864. Liberty stands on the steps of an altar, wearing a breastplate, cape, an... More
Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for president of the United Stat...
A print for a large campaign banner or poster for Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. It features a central roundel with a bust portrait of the candidate, flanked by standing deities Justice and ... 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
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 Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. For Presi...
Print shows a large, handsome campaign banner for Constitutional Union party candidates Bell and Everett. Predictably, the imagery stresses unity of the states under the Constitution. Oval bust portraits of the... More
Grand Democratic banner, US Democratic party, portrait print
Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates James K. Polk and George M. Dallas. Two bust portraits of the candidates appear in elaborate oval frames, each adorned with two eagles and a cornucopia. B... More
The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....
A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More
Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty, and with the oth...
A strongly pro-Van Buren cartoon, espousing the antislavery platform of the Free Soil party and condemning Whigs and conservative Democrats alike. The artist also reflects the lingering bitterness among many De... More
The emblem of the free / B. Day, del.
Number three in a series of illustrated song-sheets published in New York by Samuel Canty. This example includes the words of a song by Canty entitled "The Emblem of the Free" and alternately "The Traitor's Dre... More
The end of the rebellion in the United States, 1865 / C. Kimmel.
A sequel to Kimmel's grand image "The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States" (no. 1865-19), issued the year before. The artist depicts in symbolic terms the downfall of the Confederacy. Columbia, crown... More
Joseph E. Baker - Grant & Wilson, portrait print
Print shows a campaign banner for the 1872 Republican national ticket. The armored figure of Liberty stands between portraits of presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant and running mate Henry Wilson. Grant's po... More
Liberty. "Liberty brings to the earth justice and peace" / C. Inger.
A grand, pro-Union allegorical print, produced as a complimentary "Presentation Plate" for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" newspaper in 1864. Liberty stands on the steps of an altar, wearing a breastplate, cape, an... More
The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....
A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results / drawn by G.F. Kahl.
Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3.) A group of black men, on horseback and wearing top hats... More
Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More
![Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjgvYXJtcy1vZi10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy1vZi1hbWVyaWNhLWplLWJha2VyLWpvc2VwaC1lLWJha2VyLWU5NjNiYi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/47/webp "Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].")
Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].
Print shows an elaborate martial allegory of the United States. Liberty or Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap and armed with sword, shield, and American flag, is enthroned in the clouds. The words "E Pluribus Unu... More
![Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjgvYXJtcy1vZi10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy1vZi1hbWVyaWNhLWplLWJha2VyLWpvc2VwaC1lLWJha2VyLTg0OWVhMy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].")
Arms of the United States of America / J.E. Baker [Joseph E. Baker].
Print shows an elaborate martial allegory of the United States. Liberty or Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap and armed with sword, shield, and American flag, is enthroned in the clouds. The words "E Pluribus Unu... More
The re-union of the home of the brave and free! / by Samuel Canty.
A somewhat premature allegory of reconciliation between the North and South, extolling former Presidents Andrew Jackson and George Washington as defenders of the Union. Jackson (left) and Washington appear in t... More
The champions of the people's right
Another large campaign broadside or "chart" for Tilden and Hendricks. (See also no. 1876-4.) The candidates' bust portraits appear in oval medallions enframed by lush foliage and flowers. A classical female fig... More
Millard Fillmore, American candidate for president of the United State...
A large woodcut proof for a campaign banner or poster for the Native American party's 1856 presidential candidate. A bust portrait of Millard Fillmore appears in a roundel, flanked by allegorical figures of Jus... More
The outbreak of the rebellion in the United States 1861
A grand allegory of the Civil War in America, harshly critical of the Buchanan administration, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy. In the center stands Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap and a laurel wreath. She... More
Grand national union banner for 1864. Liberty, union and victory
Print shows a campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Andrew Johnson. A drawn curtain reveals bust portraits of the two candidates in roundels framed in oak l... More
Grand Democratic banner, portrait print
Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates James K. Polk and George M. Dallas. Two bust portraits of the candidates appear in elaborate oval frames, each adorned with two eagles and a cornucopia. B... More
Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and...
A memorial to the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, with distinctly pro-Democratic overtones. Below the title "Independence Declared" are bust portraits of the first eight Presidents, wit... 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
Grand national union banner for 1864. Liberty, union and victory
Print shows a campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Andrew Johnson. A drawn curtain reveals bust portraits of the two candidates in roundels framed in oak l... More
Joseph E. Baker - Grant & Wilson, portrait print
Print shows a campaign banner for the 1872 Republican national ticket. The armored figure of Liberty stands between portraits of presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant and running mate Henry Wilson. Grant's po... More