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Splitting the party: the entering wedge – Vintage Print

Splitting the party: the entering wedge, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. — antique lithograph
Splitting the party: the entering wedge, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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The title, *Splitting the Party: The Entering Wedge*, names the idea at the center of this Currier & Ives lithograph, published in New York around 1872. John Cameron signed the image, and the firm's catalog raisonné records it as number 6066. The year was a difficult one for the Republican Party, as a faction of reformers broke away from President Ulysses S. Grant and nominated Horace Greeley for president. Prints like this one turned such quarrels into quick, readable pictures that a broad public could take in at a glance.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesArtist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6066
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,072 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111570

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