Grand national union banner for 1860. The candidates and their platform – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Grand national union banner for 1860. The candidates and their platform, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grand national union banner for 1860. The candidates and their platform
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This lithograph presents itself as a national union banner for the 1860 presidential race, setting the candidates beside their platform. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced campaign prints by the thousands, issued it as the country was splitting over slavery and four tickets, Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell, offered sharply different answers. Prints like this were cheap enough for voters and political clubs to buy, so they show how partisans wanted their causes summarized and displayed. At about 33 by 25 centimeters, it was meant for a wall or a hand-held display rather than a large parade banner.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1860. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 32.9 x 24.5 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2729 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-16. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,141 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174602 |
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