John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States – Vintage Print
![John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c6/c67b76c000d7-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.)
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Step back in time with John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States
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This hand-colored lithograph shows John C. Breckinridge with his title as Vice President of the United States, and it was published by Nathaniel Currier's New York firm. Breckinridge, a Kentuckian born in 1821, was elected vice president in 1856 and served under James Buchanan from 1857 to 1861. Currier's shop produced many portraits of public figures, often colored by hand and sold cheaply to ordinary households. The catalog gives only a broad date range for the sheet, but the image is a useful record of how a rising political figure was presented to the public before the Civil War. Breckinridge later served as a Confederate general and as Confederate secretary of war.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3518 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,083 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174814 |
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