Political Campaigns

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Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor More

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Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known fo More

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor More

Public domain image of a historic building, 16th, 17th, 18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19 More

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A procession of butchers led by two Negro fiddlers, and featuring a large bull. On the ground before the bull are a cleaver, saw, and other butcher tools. The print is dedicated to Pennsylvania's recently elec More

During the first weeks of March 1812, several Boston newspapers published this map which inspired the creation of the “gerrymander” cartoon. The map illustrates the new senatorial districts in Worcester and Ess More

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Shows wards. Includes inset of Boston Neck and embellished title cartouche. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Copy imperfect: Brittle, soiled, sectioned and mounted on c More

Print shows two candidates in the Westminster election, Henry Hunt and Murray Maxwell, addressing a crowd (Source: George) Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and D More

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Caricatures diverses (Serie's title) Estampe collée sur un montage. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A caricature on the Westminster election, Feb 13th, 1819. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A view of a village in Cornwall, where the inhabitants are being evicted, taking their belongings. Proceedings are directed by a paunchy well-dressed man (left), who holds a paper: 'List of the Voters agst Lord More

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Titre de l'oeuvre - Au recto, en bas au milieu, à l'encre noire : "HEIM Les députés présentent au duc d'Orléans l'acte / de son élection et la charte. (7 août 1830). / Salon de 1834 / Musée de Versailles." Insc More

Le prêtre (Serie's title) Estampe collée sur un montage. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On verso: 10 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 194, Folder 4.

Print shows a man at center, assumed to be Davy Crockett, standing on a busy commercial street, offering one man a drink and another man tobacco, while campaigning for political office. Two dogs have stopped to More

Verkiezingen in Gent in 1831. Voor een herberg proberen roomsche geestelijken kiezers voor zich te winnen. Onderdeel van een serie van vier spotprenten uit 1831 op de toestand in België vóór en na de afscheidin More

La prison Sainte-Pélagie (Group title) Planche 4 d'une suite de 12 planches lithographiées. Tampon - Au recto, en bas au centre, sur le trait carré, tampon à l'encre violette : "VILLE / DE / PARIS" (Cf. Lugt su More

Election of 1832? Andrew Jackson pulls mightily on the tail of an elephant (symbol of the National Republican Party?) loaded with the eagle of the Republic and a bag marked "U. S. Treasures 200,000,000." A youn More

Andrew Jackson vs. the Bank of the United States. Jackson vetoed the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of the United States just before the election of 1832. After the election, having safely defeated Henry Cl More

Types populaires. Femmes sans-culotte parisiennes. Planche pour les "Français sous la Révolution", chez Challamel, 1843. (Artificial title), Août à Septembre 1793 - Octobre : Mort de Marie-Antoinette. (Serie's More

La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique (Group title) Planche parue dans La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique, volume 8, 2 octobre 1834 (Planche n°426) Inscription - [sans t More

Les Robert Macaires par Daumier & Ch. Philipon, galerie morale des voleurs, spéculateurs, dupeurs, tireurs, enfonceurs et blagueurs divers que nous rencontrons dans Paris (Serie's title), Caricaturana n°7 (Insc More

An illustrated election ticket for the presidential campaign of 1836. Oddly, the ticket lists Ohio's Democratic electors for Van Buren while making a vicious and obscene slur on the wife of his running-mate Ri More

An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man carrying More

A toutes les personnes qui ont des capitaux a perdre. Pour cent francs, un centime et quart à manger par douze heures. En voilá des rentes! Principes nouveaux. Nous divisons l’intérêt en centimes et par heures. More

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An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man, possibl More

An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio's Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a wood-engraving of Van Buren as More

Les Robert Macaires par Daumier & Ch. Philipon, galerie morale des voleurs, spéculateurs, dupeurs, tireurs, enfonceurs et blagueurs divers que nous rencontrons dans Paris (Serie's title), Caricaturana 38 (Inscr More

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A parade of jubilant New York City Whigs, led by successful mayoral candidate Aaron Clark (at right, with walking stick). Clark, who defeated Tammany candidate John J. Morgan in the Spring election, walks arm-i More

A satirical view of the heavy losses suffered by Loco Foco and Tammany factions of the New York City Democratic party in the municipal elections of April 1837. The vote brought about not only the defeat of Tam More

Martin Van Buren's New York political favorites are represented as piglets suckled by a giant sow "The Empire State." The artist's pointed reference is to the exploitation of New York State by the President and More

A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference to recent bank failures in New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The artist blames th More

Reference copy may be in LOT 4414T. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston Hist.; Statehood (Amer. politics); Texas Hist.; Broadsides 1838; Rare Bk. Di More

An attack on New York governor William L. Marcy's controversial decision to surrender Irish fugitives John Bamber, Sr., and his son James to the British consul after their detention in New York. The Bambers, wa More

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An allegorical design on the cover of a piano-music composition dedicated to the newly elected Democratic governor of Massachusetts, Marcus Morton. The illustration's central motif is based on the state seal, s More

A swipe at President Van Buren's independent treasury system and his continuation of the monetary policies of predecessor Andrew Jackson. The artist, clearly in sympathy with the Whigs, links corruption in the More

A satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years l More

Print shows presidential candidate William Henry Harrison as a military leader in dress uniform holding his sword. A laurel wreath below his portrait names him as a hero of War of 1812 battles. This portrait wa More

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

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

A parody of Democratic efforts to reelect incumbent Martin Van Buren in the face of broad popular support for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The print is a crude woodcut evidently based on Napoleon Saro More

Another in the series of "Spoodlyks's" satires on the Glentworth affair. (See also nos. 1840-60, -61, and -63). Here the artist portrays Glentworth's attempt to remove evidence in the vote fraud inquiry from t More

A postelection Whig satire, "Respectfully dedicated to the members of the Eighth Ward Tippecanoe Club and inscribed to their Patriotic Chairman Charles H. Delavan, Esqr." The artist shows a crowd of Whigs assem More

Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps about returning an old coat. He asks Phelps to call Brother Wright's attention to Senator Rive's certificate of character to [General] Harrison, stating that "it i More

Election of 1840. The "log cabin and hard cider" campaign. A balance marked "government's true scales" and supported by "popular opinion" has William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidates on one side and Martin V More

Another satire on the Glentworth scandal controversy, by the same artist as "The Last Card," "Evenhanded Justice," and "O. K." (nos. 1840-60, -62, and -63). Here the artist lampoons Democratic efforts to sensat More

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Charles Turner Torrey writes to Amos A. Phelps requesting "wholesome advice" on his current financial situation. He explains that his prison escape has left him with pecuniary troubles and asks "is there any th More

The election Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A complex and somewhat obscure satire celebrating the defeat of Dorrite Democrats in the Rhode Island state elections of spring 1843. The canvass was held the year following the successful suppression of the Do More

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A satire on the competition between rival editors Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett for New York post office printing contracts. The artist also comments on the circulation wars between Bennett's "New Yor More

One of the few satires sympathetic to the Democrats to appear during the 1844 presidential contest. Democratic presidential nominee James Polk is portrayed as a buckskinned hunter who has treed "coons" Henry Cl More

A Democratic election ticket for the 1844 presidential campaign, issued sometime between May 29, when Polk received the Democratic nomination, and the November canvass. The ticket names the party's eight electo More

The race for a $25,000 prize (the president's salary) is a metaphor for the 1844 campaign. The favored contender here is Henry Clay. The other runners are James K. Polk and John Tyler, while commentaries are of More

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

Seeking a middle course between the issues of the annexation of Texas on one hand and abolitionism on the other, Van Buren lost the support of southern Democrats, including elderly statesman Andrew Jackson. Her More

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

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As in "Texas Coming In" (no. 1844-28), a bridge over Salt River is the central motif, making the difference between the Whigs' successful crossing to the "Presidential Chair" and the disastrous route taken by t More

Campaign badge produced for the Whig National Convention held at Baltimore in May 1844. A bust-length portrait of Whig candidate Henry Clay appears in an oval, against a backdrop of American flags. The oval is More

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A satire on the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign of 1844, centering on a major issue of the race--extension of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The Whig candidate, New Jersey native Charles C. Stratton, campaign More

A cryptic satire possibly dealing with some facet of the 1844 presidential campaign. The print features two unsuccessful aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination: Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Joh More

A satire on the Whig party's anti-annexation platform. The question of whether or not to annex Texas was a large issue separating candidates in the 1844 campaign. Annexation's serious implications for the futur More

Henry Clay is the hunter, and various Democrats his quarry. Clay wears a fringed buckskin outfit and coonskin cap reminiscent of Davy Crockett and the Western characters of the contemporary stage, such as Nimro More

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An illustrated broadside reviling four Rhode Island Whigs who broke party ranks to support a popular movement to free imprisoned radical Thomas Wilson Dorr. (On the Dorr Rebellion see also "Trouble in the Spart More

A satirical view of the scramble among newly elected President James K. Polk's 1844 campaign supporters, or "patriots," for "their beans," i.e., patronage and other official favors. Polk (upper right) sits in t More

A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of the state of New York to his cousin Cassius M. Clay's campaign tour on his behalf. Oddly, though given promine More

A virulent attack on Vice-President George M. Dallas, charging the former Pennsylvania attorney and senator with duplicity in his stand on the tariff of 1846. "Jesuitism" was a strong contemporary term for dece More

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the More

Print shows Mike Walsh, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Includes text listing "a few of the peculiar doctrines of which he is the father and chosen advocate"; also, a facsimile signature.

John Sartain (American, London, England 1808–1897 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Affiche Lettre - " REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE/ LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE/ MAIRIE DU 10E ARRONDISSEMENT DE PARIS/ ELECTION/ DU/ PRESIDENT/ DE/ LA REPUBLIQUE " Marque du musée - B.C.: " CARNAVALET " Tampon - B.C.: " More

Once again, Lewis Cass is attacked as a militaristic expansionist. (See "A War President," no. 1848-16.) His support during the 1846 Oregon boundary dispute of the expansionist 54 40' parallel and his War of 1 More

A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass. Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extensio More

While Democratic and Whig candidates debate strategies to win the presidency, or "shoot the Christmas turkey," Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren makes off with the bird. At left Democrat Lewis Cass (facing f More

In a ring a large bull, wearing a ribbon marked "The Rough & Ready" between its horns, faces five matadors. The bull represents Zachary Taylor, nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready." The matadors are prominent Whigs, More

Affiche Lettre - " CANDIDATURE/ DE/ LOUIS-NAPOLEON/ BONAPARTE./ Extrait du Journal l'ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE, du 2 Décembre 1848/ Les courtisans entassent les adulations, les panégyriques: ils s'épuisent en vains e More

In a race between the railroad and the telegraph the "telegraphic candidates," Lewis Cass and William O. Butler, are first to the White House. The artist ridicules Zachary Taylor for his hazy stance on major ca More

The satire imputes to the Democrats of 1848, led by candidate Lewis Cass, the corrupt practices of the Van Buren-era party. The artist also criticizes Whig repudiation of stalwart party leader Henry Clay in fav More

George Thompson writes to Richard Davis Webb in regards to his travels to Wales for a week. He thanks him for taking the tracts. He asks about the new poltical party in the U.S. which has been created by the "l More

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

Election of 1848. Martin van Buren, ex-President and "Free-Soil" Party candidate is shown trying to bridge the gap between the Whig-Abolition platform and the Democratic platform. Both major parties, the Whigs More

Affiche Lettre - " NOMMONS/ M. DE/ LAMARTINE/ ET LES DIX PREMIERS CANDIDATS DE/ L'UNION ELECTORALE. " Lettre - B.C.: " Imprimerie centrale de NAPOLEON CHAIX et Cie, 20, rue Bergère, près du boulevart [sic] Mon More

The artist predicts a decisive Whig victory in the presidential election of 1848, with Whig candidate Zachary Taylor "bagging" all of the states in an electoral sweep. (Taylor actually carried only fifteen of t More

The Free Soil sympathies of the cartoonist are evident in his portrayal of the 1848 presidential contest as a race between the three major candidates. The contenders are on the course. Whig candidate Zachary T More