John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States – Antique Print
![John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/16/16b998c78e39-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 antique lithograph of John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States
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Kentucky politician John C. Breckinridge appears here as Vice President of the United States, a post he took up in 1857 after winning election on the ticket headed by James Buchanan. The lithograph was published by Nathaniel Currier, whose firm sold inexpensive hand-colored portraits of public figures to a wide popular market. The record gives only a date range, so the exact occasion is unclear, but the sheet shows how national politicians were packaged for ordinary buyers before the Civil War. Breckinridge later served as Confederate secretary of war, which adds weight to this earlier portrait.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3518 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,094 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174813 |
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