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George M. Dallas: Vice President of the United States – Historic Print

George M. Dallas: Vice President of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1844. — antique lithograph
George M. Dallas: Vice President of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1844.. Antique lithograph from the Dallas collection.

(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: George M. Dallas: Vice President of the United States, 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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George M. Dallas, the Pennsylvania lawyer and politician whose portrait this is, was elected vice president in 1844 on a ticket with James K. Polk, and this hand-colored lithograph was issued by Nathaniel Currier that same year to capitalize on the campaign. Currier's firm was then a young New York shop that produced cheap, colorful prints for a mass market, and political portraits of candidates sold briskly during election seasons. Collectors of Currier work will recognize the catalog reference in the record, which places the print among the firm's documented output of the 1840s. The image is a useful window into how partisan imagery reached ordinary households before photography became common.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1844.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2549
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,058 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174554

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