The Union Must And Shall Be Preserved – Historic 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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A window into the past: The Union Must And Shall Be Preserved, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Union Must And Shall Be Preserved
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Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin appear in oval portraits framed by rustic bent twigs, a nod to Lincoln's widely publicized frontier and log-cabin origins. Above them, a rail fence carries the banner "Free Speech, Free Homes, Free Territory," and an eagle spreads its wings amid American flags. Philadelphia lithographer W. H. Rease produced the print as a campaign piece for the Republican ticket in the 1860 election, when the party's opposition to slavery's expansion into the territories was the central issue. Worth noticing are the two laborers standing below the portraits, which point to the party's appeal to free workers.
| Created / published | c. 1860 |
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| Medium | print on wove paper, lithograph printed in grey-olive and black, image 30.3 x 42.9 cm. |
| Notes | For President Abraham Lincoln Of Illinois. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine. W.H. Rease, Philadelphia. SUMMARY: Print shows a campaign banner for the Republican ticket. Oval bust portraits of the two candidates are enclosed in rustic bent-twig frames, intended perhaps to recall Lincoln's much-publicized backwoods origins. A rail fence appears above the portraits, draped with a banner with the motto, "Free Speech, Free Homes, Free Territory." An eagle stands on top of it, spreading his wings, surrounded by American flags. Below, between the portrait ovals, stand two American laborers flanking a shield marked "Protection to American Industry." On the left is a smith holding a hammer and standing before an anvil. On the right stands a woodman with his ax. The ax-head is embedded in a large, fallen tree. Behind the shield are several smokestacks and the sails of a ship. At the shi |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,833 × 2,656 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L-E-4 |
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