Seventh ward beggars – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Seventh ward beggars, 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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Seventh ward beggars
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Seventh Ward Beggars" is pointed in a way many 1830s cartoons are not, because it names a specific New York district and a specific politician, Reuben Miles Whitney, alongside Andrew Jackson. The lithograph belongs to the bitter partisan fight over the Second Bank of the United States and federal banking policy. Its title suggests a jab at officeholders and party men who were seen as dependent on patronage. Its pairing of Jackson with Whitney also reflects the Panic of 1837 and the hard times that followed, when credit and economic policy were fiercely contested. Inexpensive prints like this one circulated widely, so they capture the partisan mood of the period.
| Created / published | 1839 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1840.Political cartoons 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845. Whitney, Reuben Miles,--1788-1845. Banking--1830-1840. Beggars--1830-1840. Economic policy--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,046 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109542 |
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