Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House – Antique Print
(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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Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House
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A scythe-and-field metaphor carries the title, casting James A. Garfield as a farmer clearing a path to the presidency. Garfield had worked as a farm laborer and canal boatman in his youth in Ohio, and that background became a campaign theme in 1880. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for topical lithographs, issued many prints that year to appeal to voters. Garfield won the election narrowly and took office in March 1881, but he was shot in July of that year and died in September.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2040 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,135 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110474 |
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