[Dividing the] national [map] – Vintage Map Wall Art
![[Dividing the] national [map], [Cincinnati? : s.n.], 1860. — antique map](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/16/169694b29e59-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique map captures [Dividing the] national [map] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Dividing the] national [map]
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Its title, *Dividing the National Map*, points to the sectional split that shaped the 1860 presidential race, and the three men named in its record are John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. Bell ran for the Constitutional Union party, Breckinridge for the Southern Democrats, and Lincoln for the Republicans, while Stephen A. Douglas, the northern Democratic candidate, also took part in the contest. The lithograph's place of publication is uncertain, though Cincinnati is suggested, and it shows how political cartoons of the period used maps to depict a nation pulling apart before the Civil War.
| Created / published | [Cincinnati? : s.n.], 1860. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 34 x 48.8 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860.Political cartoons 1860. |
| Notes | Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 121. Wilson, p. 42-43. 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 1860-24. |
| Subjects | Bell, John,--1797-1869. Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell),--1821-1875. Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. Presidential elections--United States--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,019 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111620 |
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