The people's line--Take care of the locomotive – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The people's line--Take care of the locomotive. 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 people's line--Take care of the locomotive
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Its title, "The people's line--Take care of the locomotive," sets this print apart from the many 1840 campaign images built around log cabins and cider barrels, because it uses a railroad engine as its central figure. The record names Henry Clay and William Henry Harrison among its subjects. Both were central to the 1840 contest, and Harrison became the Whig nominee after Clay lost the party's nomination in 1839. Inexpensive woodcut sheets like this one, sold in New York, carried partisan messages to voters who might never read a long editorial, and the hand-applied watercolor made each copy look more lively.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut and letterpress with watercolor, on wove paper ; 23.9 x 29.8 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1840.Woodcuts 1840. |
| Notes | Sold by Huestis & Co. and Robert Elton? at 104 Nassau, and 18 Division Streets, New-York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 68. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-28. |
| Subjects | Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity. Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841. Log cabins--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,419 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216937 |
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