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Anti-Masonic apron – Vintage Wall Art

Anti-Masonic apron, [Albany, New York] : Published by W[illiam] Cammeyer, Jr., 489 Sth. Market Street, Albany, c1831. — antique engraving
Anti-Masonic apron, [Albany, New York] : Published by W[illiam] Cammeyer, Jr., 489 Sth. Market Street, Albany, c1831.. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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The thing that sets this engraving apart is its title: it takes the Masonic apron, the white leather emblem of the fraternity, as its subject and turns it into a political object. Albany, where Cammeyer published it around 1831, was a center of the Anti-Masonic movement, which grew out of outrage over the 1826 disappearance of William Morgan in western New York, a man widely believed to have been killed for threatening to expose Masonic secrets. By the early 1830s, Anti-Masons were organizing into one of the first third parties in American politics, and cartoons like this one were a main way they spread their views to voters. The print was deposited for copyright in November 1831, the same year the party held its first national nominating convention.

Created / published[Albany, New York] : Published by W[illiam] Cammeyer, Jr., 489 Sth. Market Street, Albany, c1831.
Medium1 print on fine wove paper : engraving ; plate 32.5 x 34 cm.
GenrePolitical cartoons 1830-1840.Engravings 1830-1840.
NotesTitle from item. The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on November 1, 1831. DLC Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1831-3.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163529

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