General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step
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Printed in Baltimore in 1840, this sheet-music cover carries the title *General Harrison's Log Cabin March & Quick Step*, which turns a campaign emblem into a dance tune. Samuel Carusi issued the piece, and Ed Weber & Co. made the lithograph, so the cover is as much graphic design as a score. During the 1840 presidential race, Whig supporters presented William Henry Harrison as a plain frontiersman in a log cabin, an image that played against his Virginia planter upbringing and made the cabin one of the campaign's most recognizable symbols. Songs and covers like this carried that imagery into homes well beyond the election itself.
| Created / published | Baltimore : Published by Saml. Carusi 1840. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper : 26.7 x 44.5 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840.Sheet music covers 1840. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1840 by Saml. Carusi. Lith. of Ed Weber & Co. Published by Saml. Carusi Baltimore. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-18. |
| Subjects | Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841. Log cabins--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,473 × 1,176 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218416 |
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