Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House
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The title casts James A. Garfield as a farmer mowing a clear path to the White House, a nod to his rural youth in northeastern Ohio, where he worked on the farm and as a canal boy before rising to the presidency. The 1880 Republican convention in Chicago deadlocked for many ballots before delegates turned to him as a compromise candidate, and he defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock that November. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for its campaign lithographs, turned such biographical details into quick visual messages that voters could take in at a glance.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2040 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,946 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174429 |
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