Seymour and Blair – Vintage Wall Art
![Seymour and Blair, [1868] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/ab37883aa010-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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Seymour and Blair in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Seymour and Blair
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This carte de visite pairs the two men on the Democratic ticket in 1868: Horatio Seymour for president and Francis Preston Blair Jr. for vice president. Seymour, a former New York governor, reluctantly accepted his party's nomination, while Blair, a Missouri politician who had once been an antislavery Republican, was chosen to balance the ticket. Cards like this were sold and traded during campaigns, carrying candidates' likenesses into homes far from the rallies. The ticket lost to Ulysses S. Grant, and the pairing now serves as a snapshot of an election fought largely over Reconstruction.
| Created / published | [1868] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount. |
| Genre | Portrait drawings Reproductions 1860-1870.Group portraits 1860-1870.Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Hand written on verso: Presented by ..., 540 Cynwyd Circle, Balla-Cynwyd, Pa., Oct. 10, 1963. Pres. & Vice-Pres. candidates in 1868; Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Reference copy in BIOG FILE. |
| Subjects | Seymour, Horatio,--1810-1886. Blair, Francis Preston,--1791-1876. Presidential elections--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,170 × 5,136 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202633 |
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