General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step
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This sheet music cover, issued in Baltimore in 1840 by the publisher Samuel Carusi, uses a lithograph to promote a march and quick step titled for William Henry Harrison's log cabin. During the 1840 presidential campaign, Whig supporters presented Harrison, a former army general and frontier figure, as a plain man of humble log cabins and hard cider, in pointed contrast to the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Campaign songs like this one carried those images into parlors and taverns, turning a political message into something people could play and sing. The cover itself is worth a look for how it mixes a cabin scene with the music's printed title.
| 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 | 1,536 × 979 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110475 |
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