[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Merry-Go-Round for the White House"]" – Antique Wall Art
![[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Merry-Go-Round for the White House"]", 1876 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ed/ed77f309761b-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Merry-Go-Round for the White House"]". The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Merry-Go-Round for the White House" casts the 1876 race as a carousel, with party men circling the executive mansion as if it were a prize on a ride. The Daily Graphic, a New York illustrated paper, ran it as a wood engraving on its cover on May 19, 1876, weeks before the Republican and Democratic conventions picked their nominees. The record names Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas Hendricks, William Eaton Chandler, and Francis Cockrell, figures who were all contending for influence in that contest. The cartoon captures the uncertainty of a spring when no one yet knew who would ride away with the White House.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Daily Graphic, 1876 May 19, cover. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres.; B.I.; Astrology; Finance; Congress, U.S.--Senate; Pres. Contests--1876; Political Parties; Cartoons, U.S.--1876. Chandler, William Eaton, 1835-1917. Hendricks, Thomas Andrews, 1819-1885. Cockrell, Francis Marion, 1834-1915. Hayes, Rutherford B. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,325 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142979 |
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