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Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House – Historic Print

Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880. — antique lithograph
Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880.. Antique lithograph from the White House 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Farmer Garfield: Cutting a swath to the White House in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The title casts Ohio Republican James A. Garfield as a farmer mowing his way to the presidency, a fitting image for a candidate who had grown up on a rural Ohio farm and worked as a canal boatman before entering politics. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for inexpensive colored lithographs, issued many campaign prints like this one for a mass audience around 1880. Garfield narrowly won that year's election, but he was shot in July 1881 and died in September, so the print now stands as a record of an optimistic campaign moment.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2040
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,184 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174429

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