The late Roscoe Conkling - [2 images]: 1. Waiting for news - scenes around the Hoffman House [N.Y.C.] 2. Scenes during the great Republican convention of 1880, Chicago. – Antique Wall Art
![The late Roscoe Conkling - [2 images]: 1. Waiting for news - scenes around the Hoffman House [N.Y.C.] 2. Scenes during the great Republican convention of 1880, Chicago., 1888 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4c4cee908844-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 engraving captures The late Roscoe Conkling - [2 images]: 1. Waiting for news - scenes around the Hoffman House [N.Y.C.] 2. Scenes during the great Republican convention of 1880, Chicago. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The late Roscoe Conkling - [2 images]: 1. Waiting for news - scenes around the Hoffman House [N.Y.C.] 2. Scenes during the great Republican convention of 1880, Chicago.
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Two scenes share this sheet: a crowd waiting for news outside the Hoffman House in New York, and a view from the 1880 Republican convention in Chicago. The engraving ran in The Daily Graphic on April 18, 1888, the day Roscoe Conkling, the New York senator and Stalwart leader, died, so the Hoffman House panel shows onlookers anxiously awaiting word of his condition. The Chicago panel recalls the convention where Conkling's faction pushed hard for Ulysses S. Grant's bid for a third term, a fight that defined much of his later political reputation.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Daily Graphic, 1888 Apr. 18, p. 368. Reference copy may be available in B.I. - Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Political Conventions--1880--Republican; BI; New York (NY)--Hoffman House--1888; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145910 |
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