The Log cabin song – Vintage 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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The Log cabin song comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 Log cabin song
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The cover of this sheet music for "The Log Cabin Song," printed about 1840, carries a lithographed scene of a log cabin, a design that signals the political moment it was published in. The 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison made the log cabin and hard cider into symbols of his image as a plain frontier man, and songs like this one carried that message into parlors. The lithograph was made by B.W. Thayer's firm and copyrighted by the publisher Parker & Ditson. Its cover art shows how commercial printing turned a campaign theme into everyday household entertainment.
| Created / published | c1840. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Sheet music covers 1840.Lithographs 1840. |
| Notes | LOT subdivision subject: Log Cabins. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Parker & Ditson. Lithograph by B.W. Thayer's Lith. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113852 |
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