Grand democratic free soil banner – Historic Reproduction
![Grand democratic free soil banner, [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, N.Y., c1848. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/70/70f4451c2c24-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 lithograph captures Grand democratic free soil banner in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A hand-colored lithograph of a Free Soil campaign banner, published by Nathaniel Currier from his Nassau Street shop in New York around 1848, is the subject here. That was the year the Free Soil Party took shape to oppose extending slavery into the western territories, and its slogans of free soil, free speech and free men were common in campaign displays. Currier, who later partnered with James Ives to produce a large body of popular prints, was then a young publisher building his trade in inexpensive pictures for a wide public. The record also credits daguerreotypes by John Plumbe, a reminder that many printed images of the period drew on photographic sources.
| Created / published | [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, N.Y., c1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph with watercolor ; image 33.2 x 23.1. |
| Genre | MI : Gale Research |
| Notes | From Daguerreotypes by [John] Plumbe." The Library's impression of the banner was deposited for copyright on September 1 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110503 |
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