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1. Champions of Liberty. P. S. Duval & Son lith. Phila. Three-color lithograph, 1865. Image
size 14 3/8 x 19 1/8” (36.5 x 48.6 cm). Entered in 1865 by Samuel Marshall. Banner under
Washington “Under this Flag He led us to Independence.” Banner under Lincoln “Under this
Flag He led us to Freedom.” Good condition, save for overall toning and remains of minor water
stains. #92115-1 $1,250.00
A wonderful image with an eagle grasping the “Emancipation Proclamation” in its talons and with
thirteen stars between its wings representing the original Colonies. Below the eagle is a portrait
of Columbia seated with the scales of justice and the sword of liberty. Below Columbia is a
representation of the United States Capitol. At lower left are two Revolutionary War soldiers and
at lower right are two black Civil War soldiers.
THE ART OF POLITICS
or POLITICS IN ART
VOLUME LXXVI
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Robert K. Newman, Editor
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NUMBER 1
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413.527.4020 www.bostonraremaps.com [email protected]
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UPON THE EXECUTION OF ALEXANDER WEDDERBURNE, ESQ. AND
THOMAS HUTCHINSON, ESQ. Convicted of TREACHERY to the Americans. Boston:
Sold at Kneeland & Davis’s Printing-Office in Queen-Street, [May 1774?]. Large oblong
broadside. Sheet size 13½ x 17” (34.3 x 43.2 cm). Seven lines of headline type over four columns of
letterpress, illustrated by two cuts and a mourning border. Docketed on verso. Old folds,
minor foxing and soiling, small loss in right margin, and minor reinforcements on verso.
Good condition. Not in Evans, Bristol, Ford or OCLC. #92127-1/BRM2457 $35,000.00
A dramatic, impressive and unrecorded broadside commemorating an important event in the
career of Ben Franklin and the run-up to the Revolution.
In 1773, while serving as a colonial agent in London, Ben Franklin admitted to acquiring
Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson’s private correspondence and transmitting it to patriots
in Boston. The letters were highly critical of the patriot cause, and their publication had sparked
outrage and rendered Hutchinson’s position untenable. Soon after, Franklin appeared before
the Privy Council and was publicly harangued and humiliated by Solicitor General Alexander
Wedderburne. Two days later he lost his lucrative post as Deputy Postmaster General for
America. It is said the experience transformed him from a conciliator into a revolutionary.
When news of Franklin’s humiliation reached Philadelphia in April, patriots there paraded
effigies of Hutchinson and Wedderburne in a cart through the city then set them on fire,
reportedly by means of an electrical spark! The ceremony is recounted on this impressive
broadside. The left side features a dramatic headline—“Upon the Execution of Alexander
Wedderburne, Esq. and Thomas Hutchinson, Esq.”—surmounting two columns of letterpress,
illustrated by funeral cuts and a mourning border. The text describes the procession and
“execution” and effusively praises Franklin. At right two columns of letterpress reprint “Epitaphs”
of Wedderburne and Hutchinson.
The broadside is unrecorded, though two others commemorating the event are known, each in
a single impression. Both lack the decorative elements and visual impact of our printing.
THE ART OF POLITICS or POLITICS IN ART
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.” Preamble to the United States Constitution.
In this issue of Portfolio The Old Print Shop, Inc., and Boston Rare Maps
celebrate this Election year by examining the political history of the United States
as seen through printed images. We describe the printed objects, give brief
histories of the political figures involved, and attempt to explain their significance.
We begin in 1774 as tensions between the England were reaching a
new height.
We then proceed more or less chronologically through
each Presidency and presidential election, culminating in the seminal
Election of 1932, which brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt to power and
ushered in The New Deal. Along the way we present dozens of prints,
portraits, broadsides, and maps that bring life to these men and great issues that
animated them and the country.
Some of the items in the catalogue are marked NFS. These are items we have
sold and borrowed back from clients. If you are interested, let us know.
This is the type of material we will purchase again in the future.
The on-line and gallery exhibitions will feature additional material,
including an expanded time line up into the 1960’s with small collectables
such as political buttons.
GALLERY EXHIBITION OCTOBER 1 – NOVEMBER 12, 2016
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A Display of the United States of America. To the Patrons of Arts and
Sciences, in all parts of the World, this Plate is most respectfully Dedicated, . . .
Amos Doolittle (1754-1832). Printed & Sold by A. Doolittle New Haven Where Engraving
& Roling Press printing is performed. Copper plate engraving, 1788-98. Printed March 1,
1798. Image size 20 1/4 x 16 3/8” (51.4 x 41.6 cm). Good condition, save for
several splits and associated short tears. Overall time toning, backed of
Japan paper. Faint original hand coloring. E. McSherry Fowble, Two Centuries of Prints
in America, 1680-1880, #212; Charles Henry Hart, Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits
of Washington, #840. Unrecorded variant. #24349-1 $30,000.00
This portrait of Washington with the seals of the original thirteen Colonies and the United States
is considered one of the most important portraits of Washington produced. Hart believed
the plate was engraved prior to 1788 because in the first state the representations of Rhode
Island and North Carolina in Congress are left blank. However, the inscription around the portrait
reads “George Washington President of the United States of America”, and Washington was not
elected until 1789. In all later states the representations of Rhode Island and North Carolina in
Congress are shown.
In the first state Doolittle used James Trenchard’s awkward three-fourths-length portrait of
George Washington from the Columbian Magazine of 1787. In all later states, the portrait was
changed to resemble the profile portrait of Washington by Joseph Wright. Catalogue of the
Engraved Portraits of Washington by Charles Henry Hart describes five states of this print.
This impression is not noted but is after the last state noted (Hart #840d 1796).
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4. A New Display of the United States. Amos Doolittle (1754-1832). Printed & sold wholesale
by Amos Doolittle, August 14’ 1799. Engraving, 1799. Paper size 20 x 16” (50.8 x 40.6 cm).
E. McSherry Fowble, Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880, #213. #44294 NFS
A similar image, honoring John Adams, second President of the United States. Adams’ portrait
is surmounted by a banner reading “Millions for our Defence Not a Cent for Tribute.” The portrait
is surrounded with the seals of the sixteen states including Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee,
which had joined the Union in 1791, 1792, and 1796 respectively. Notes by each state indicate
its population, the number of inhabitants, Senators and number of members in the House of
Representatives.
The success of “A Display of the United States of America,” featuring George Washington,
encouraged Amos Doolittle to attempt a new edition honoring President Adams. However,
the rarity of this print, with fewer than a dozen impressions known, suggests that it was not a
success. This is the first state issued in 1799. A second state was issued in 1803 and has a
decorative scroll work below the title and updated information next to each state.
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5. Alexander Hamilton, : Major General of the Armies of the United States of
America. Secretary of Treasury &c, &c. Archibald Robertson (1745-1813). Painted by
Archibald. Robertson 79 Liberty St. Engraved by Wm. Rollinson 27 Pine St. Published by the
Columbia Academy of Painting 79 Liberty St. and by Wm. Rollinson 27 Pine Street. Stipple and
line engraving, 1804. Image size 17 1/2 x 13 9/16” (44.4 x 34.5 cm). E. McSherry Fowble,
Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880, #229. Good condition, a beautiful impression.
#80930-2 $17,000.00
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 57 – July 12, 1804) was one of the founding fathers
of the United States, Chief of Staff to General Washington, one of the most influential
interpreters and promoters of the Constitution, the founder of the nation’s financial
system, and the founder of the first American political party. Hamilton died in a duel with
his bitter enemy, Aaron Burr, in 1804. This engraving was started in 1800 but was not
finished until after Hamilton’s death. The print was advertised in the August 30, 1804, issue of
the New York Evening Post. This print shows Hamilton poised with symbols of his career
as a public servant including his sword, cockaded hat, order of the Cincinnati medal
and Treasury Department Seal.
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6. A New Display of the United States. - Title around portrait “T. Jefferson President
of the United States - Supporter of Liberty - True Republican & Friend of the Rights
of Man.” Amos Doolittle (1754-1832). New Haven printed & sold wholesale by Amos
Doolittle, August 14, 1806. Engraving, 1806. Plate size 20 1/4 x 16 3/8” (51.4 x 41.6 cm). Not in
E. McSherry Fowble, Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880, #79208 NFS
According to Donald C. O’Brien in “Amos Doolittle Engraver of the New Republic” no impression
with Thomas Jefferson survived although he notes that the Reverend William A. Beardsley knew
of an impression, and James Terry wrote about an impression in the collection of Miss Stiles.
The portrait of Thomas Jefferson is a separate image that has been glued on top of the print.
Under Jefferson’s portrait is the portrait of John Adams. It appears that Doolittle reused the
final state of the “John Adams” plate version rather than engrave a new one. Thus, it was
not updated to include Ohio, which became a State in 1803. Text surrounding the portrait reads
“T. Jefferson President of the United States – Supporter of Liberty – True Republican & Friend
of the Rights of Man.”
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7. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, and ON THIS. No artist or engraver noted. We believe this is
the work of Peter Maverick, Jr., who was working in New York at this time. “New-York, June,
1807.” Etching and engraving, 1807. Image size 9 5/16 x 11 1/4” (23.6 x 28.6 cm). American
Antiquarian Society Catalogue Record #475076. #80641-1 NFS
Under the Washington portrait “Order; Law; Religion” and below title “See what a grace was
seated on this brow. : An eye like Mars to threaten and command, : A combination, and a form,
indeed, : Where every God did seem to set his seal, : To give the world assurance of a man. :
THIS WAS __”
Under the Jefferson portrait “Sophisms Notes on Virginia; Tom Paine; Condorcet; Voltaire” and
below title “HERE IS __ : Like a mildew’d ear, : Blasting his wholesome brother : Vide Hamlet.”
Washington is flanked by a lion and eagle with a laurel wreath above. Jefferson is flanked by
a snake and crocodile with a smudgy candle above. The title is taken from a line in
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Look here, upon this picture, and on this.” When this image was
produced, Thomas Jefferson was the seated president of the United States of America.
Fear of reprisals is likely why the engraver and the artist left their names off the image.
Jefferson was seen as almost too scholarly at the time. He spoke five languages and and
was deeply engaged in the sciences. He had been narrowly elected as the third President
in 1800 with the Congress having to choose the winner, as neither candidate received
enough electoral votes. He was re-elected in 1804.
Thomas Jefferson ran on the Democratic-Republican ticket and was loathed by the
other major party at the time, the Federalist Party. It is very likely that this image was produced
to help sway the Presidential election of 1808 to the Federalist Party candidate
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. However, the election was won by Democrat-Republican
James Madison.
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8. The First Great Western Empire : or, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Jonathan
Clark / press of H. Packard, No. 51, State-Street, Albany, January 15, 1812. Large broadside
printed in two colors. Image size 19 x 14 3/4” (48.3 x 37.5 cm). Shaw Shoemaker 25079.
OCLC lists impressions at the AAS (mutilated), Library of Congress, New York Historical
and Princeton. #92165/BRM1797 NFS
A rare and impressive display broadside issued just months before the outbreak of the War
of 1812 and heavily illustrated with patriotic imagery.
“A large central framework incorporates a small “Temple of Freedom” surmounted by a small
Liberty figure, and containing the words “The Federal Constitution.” On each side are oval
bust portraits of Presidents (left to right) Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Above
them are small vignettes representing (on the left) Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures, the
“immoveable pillars of the Independence of our country,” and (on the right) Commerce,
“a strong support to our national edifice.” In the upper section of the framework are the seal
of the United States and a listing of the names of the seventeen states with their 1810 census
figures. Various quotations and brief texts are included, the longest of which is an account of
George Washington’s resignation of his commission, a description of the geography,
government, and people of the United States, and the song “Columbia” written by “Dr. Dwight,
President of Yale College.”” (Library of Congress)
The “Temple of Freedom” is printed in red from a woodblock, making this a very early example of
American color printing and probably the largest to date. Variants are known using other colors;
the American Antiquarian Society impression is for example printed in green, and we have seen
another in a mustard shade.
The phrases “Eighth Edition” and “June 1812” appear above the upper neat line. These are
not present on the AAS impression, which we presume to be a “First Edition,” while the second
through seventh editions are likely phantoms.
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9. Natural and Political History of THE GERRY-MANDER! IN TWO CHAPTERS………….
WITH CUTS. Anonymous, undated but published in Boston, c.1813-22. Large broadside,
printed area 19 3/8 x 13 5/8” (49.2 x 34.6 cm) plus wide margins. Four-line head plus two
columns of text and two woodcuts. Untrimmed, with minor soiling and some restoration to
upper margin. Murrell, American Graphic Humor, pp. 54-60 (illus. p. 65). Phillip Lee Phillips
Society Newsletter, Winter 2001- Fall 2002, p. 20 (illus. p. 18). OCLC #58784901 and 47849017
(AAS, Boston Athenaeum, and the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies). #92128-1
$25,000.00
A rare and spectacular broadside satirizing one of the most toxic yet enduring features of
American politics.
In 1812 Massachusetts Republicans led by Governor Elbridge Gerry engineered a radical
redistricting, designed to disadvantage the Federalist majority in the upcoming state senatorial
elections. The legislation served its purpose: in that year’s election the Republicans’ majority
grew from 21-19 to 29-11… though the Federalists actually received more votes!
On viewing a map of the redistricted Essex County, one wag—the painter Gilbert Stuart, some
say, spliced the governor’s name with that of the mythical beast, and so the “Gerry-mander”
was born. Soon thereafter the first image of the Gerry-mander appeared in print, probably in the
Boston Gazette of March 26. The image consists of a map of one of the two new districts
in Essex County, with the constituent towns shown in outline, ornamented by fearsome jaws
and claws and a demonic-looking set of wings.
Offered here is a broadside issued somewhat later, apparently on the occasion of another
redistricting effort. The Gerry-mander woodcut is featured prominently, seemingly line-forline identical to the original as is a more realistic woodcut map of Essex County showing its
two senatorial districts. The first column of text is reprinted from the original Boston Gazette
piece of 1812, while the second column gives a “Political History” which may be original.
The American Antiquarian Society suggests a date of 1813-1822.
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10. Democracy - against the - Unnatural Union. : Trial Octr. 14th 1817. William Charles
(1776-1820). Etching, 1817. Inscribed in plate “Designed and executed by one who has neither
place nor pension.” Image size 12 9/16 x 9 1/8” (31.9 x 23.2 cm). Good condition, mild toning,
trimmed to the outer neat line. Murrell American Graphic Humor, #88. #50771-1 $6,500.00
A satire on the 1817 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial race between William Findlay and Joseph
Heister. The artist clearly favors the former and charges corruption in Heister’s campaign.
Findlay appears to float toward the Governor’s chair, carried aloft by the voices of a crowd of
voters standing around a rostrum on the left. From members of the crowd come the words:
“voice of the people,” “the man of our Choice,” “Chosen with open doors,” “no bribery or
Corruption,” “let me impress it on your minds who was nominated by 113 delegates of true
Republican principles,” “I will record the deed,” and “True Democracy.” Findlay says, “How easy
do I ascend.”
On the right another crowd is assembled. Several men hold up a platform made of
bundles of the Aurora and U. S. Gazette newspapers and “Shingles bought at 10 pounds
and paid for at 8 pounds,” which in turn supports planks labeled “Federalism,” “Old Schoolism”
and “1364 Dollars.” On top stands candidate Heister, holding a paper entitled “Serious
Reflections . . . “ and saying “Mercy on me-What a foundation I stand upon!!!” Various
people below say: “I would Vote for Old Nick provided I could get a good Office,” “I am
thinking to myself how foolish we shall look if we do not Succeed,” “We must have recourse
to all kinds of Strategem or we cannot succeed,” and “I do not much relish this Union
But Concience [sic] Avaunt.” An eagle with an olive branch and lightning bolts in
its talons appears in the sky below the chair.
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P O LI T ICAL PORTR AITS
George Washington Eqer. General en Chef de l’Armee Englo Ameriquaine nomme
dictateur par le Congres En Fevrier 1777. . . . After Alexander Campbell by an
unidentifiedFrench engraver. Etching and engraving, 1777. Image size 11 3/4 x 7 5/8”
(29.8 x 18.7 cm).Good condition, drum mounted on board, with full original color. Baker #59;
Hart #736; Fowble#78. #80635-1 $6,000.00
George Washington Esq.r : Late President of the United States in America.
Engrav’d from an original drawing by Savage. No engraver or publisher noted. Edward
Savage (1761-1817). Mezzotint printed in color, undated c.1805. Image size 18 1/4 x 13 5/8”
(46.3 x 34.6 cm). Good condition and color, small puncture to right of Washington’s head
skillfullyrepaired. Hart 677a #76103-2 $9,000.00
John Adams, President of the United States of America. Edward Savage(1761-1817).
Stipple engraving. Published by E. Savage, Oc. 10, 1800. Image size11 1/4 x 9” (28.5 x 22.9 cm).
Good condition, save for overall time toning. Stauffer #2744. 64692-2 $4,500.00
Thomas Jefferson, Esq. President of the United States. After Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860). Engraved by E. G. Gridley. Image size 11 1/4 x 9 inches (28.5 x 22.9 cm). Generally
good condition. Tear in title margin and several short tears in margins. Stauffer-Fielding #531.
#89718-1 $6,500.00
11. Election Day, 1815. Independence Square, Philadelphia. Painted by John Lewis
Krimmel (1786-1821). Engraved by Alexander Lawson (1773-1846). Engraving, 1821-1846.
Image size 16 1/2 x 24 5/8” (41.9 x 62.6 cm). Fair condition, overall toning and old mat line.
A fine impression. 88322-1 $3,200.00
Alexander Lawson was a friend of Krimmel and owned the painting. Lawson worked on the
engraving between 1821 and his death in 1846, never finishing the work. In 1887 one of
Alexander Lawson’s daughters donated the plate to the Pennsylvania Academy, which at the
time ran off forty-two impressions of the plate.
This impression is very similar to the impression in The Library Company of Philadelphia.
Therefore, it likely dates from the forty-two impressions printed in 1887.
James Madison, : Fourth President of the United States. : 23. Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier,
33 Spruce St. New York. Lithograph handcolored, undated. Small folio - image size 11 x 8 5/8”
(27.9 x 22 cm). Good condition and color, save for small stain in the title. Not in Conningham,
but variant of #3171. #64015-1 $425.00
Abraham Lincoln. After a photograph by Anthony Berger. Chromolithograph, 1864. Published
by E. C. Middleton, Cincinnati, Ohio. Oval image size 17 1/8 x 14 1/8” (43.5 x 35.8 cm).
Very good condition and color. Original frame is in very fine condition. #87660-1 $1,500.00
“Backed to Win.” [James A. Garfield.] New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St.
Lithograph, 1880. Image size - small folio - 12 3/4 x 9 3/4” (32.4 x 24.8 cm). Fair condition with
a repaired tear in the upper right margin and some staining in the margins. Conningham
#336. #92174-1 $675.00
Thomas Hart Benton. : Senator from Missouri.
Drawn by Charles Fenderich. Printed
by Lehman & Duvall, Philada. Lithograph on chin colle, 1837. Image size 11 15/16 x 10 3/4”
(30.3 x 27.2 cm). Fair condition, save for toning in margins. #90714-1 $250.00
Samuel L. Southard : Senator From New Jersey. From life on stone by Chas. Fend
Erich. Printed by P.S. Duval Lith. Philada. Lithograph on chin colle, 1841. Image size
12 13/16 x 11 1/8” (32.5 x 28.3 cm). Good condition save for light foxing in the margins.
#90707-1 $250.00
John N. Robinson : Senator from Illinois. From life on stone by Chas. Fenderich. Printed
by P.S. Duval Lith. Philada. Lithograph on chin colle, 1841. Image size 12 3/8 x 10 13/16”
(31.7 x 27.6 cm). Good condition save for light foxing in the margins. #90712-1 $250.00
H. Hubbard : Senator from New Hampshire. From life on stone by Chas. Fenderich.
Printed by Lehman & Duval lith. Philada.. Lithograph on chin colle, 1841. Image size
12 3/8 x 10 7/16” (31.4 x 26.5 cm). Good condition save for minor foxing. #90713-1 $250.00
12. (left) James Monroe : President of the United States. Painted by I. Van Der Lyn
(painted by John Vanderlyn). Engraved by T. Gimbrede. (Thomas Gimbrede). Stipple
engraving, 1817. Image size 9 1/4 x 7 5/8” (23.5 x 19.4 cm). Good condition, save for some minor
toning and discoloration in the margins. #92171-1 $600.00
13. (right) John Quincy Adams. : Sixth President of the United States. Lith. & Pub. by
N. Currier, 33 Spruce St. N.Y. Lithograph handcolored, undated. Small folio - image size
11 1/8 x 8 11/16” (28.3 x 22.2 cm). Fair condition and color, several marginal tears extending
into color, toning of sheet and fading of color. Conningham #3276. #46056-2 $345.00
Henry Clay. : Senator from Kentucky. Drawn by Charles Fenderich. Printed by Lehman
& Duvall, Philada. Lithograph on chin colle, 1837. Image size 10 1/2 x 10” (26.7 x 25.4 cm).
Fair condition, some toning in the margins. #92183-1 $250.00
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14. Andrew Jackson : At the Hermitage, 1832. R. E. W. Earl Pinxt. J. H. Bufford Delt.
Pendleton’s Lithogy. Boston. After a painting by Ralph E. W. Earl, drawn on stone by J. H. Bufford
and printed by Pendleton. Lithograph, c.1832. Image size 19 x 15 11/16” (48.3 x 39.8 cm).
Good condition. #45409-5 $2,750.00
A wonderful portrait of the Nation’s seventh President at his home The Hermitage in Nashville,
Tennessee.
John and William Pendleton opened their lithographic publishing studio in 1825 in Boston.
They had many apprentices that would go on to be prominent artists and lithographers
including Nathaniel Currier, Fitz Henry Lane, and John H. Bufford. Like Currier, Bufford would go
on to create his own lithographic publishing empire starting in 1835. When this lithograph was
produced, he was still an apprentice for the Pendletons.
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15. A MIRROR FOR POLITICIANS. Moral Beauty of Consistency. . . . [NP, ND, but New
York, 1828?] Broadside on wove paper. Artist and publisher unknown. Title plus 3 columns
of text, with two wood-engraved illustrations, each ca. 4 x 4”. The whole enclosed in a wide
ornamental border. Good condition overall. Somewhat toned, faint stain along right edge,
few tiny holes in left column affecting perhaps 3 letters. Edges a bit trimmed but margins
ample. Shoemaker, American Imprints for 1820-1829, #34153. OCLC locates but 7
institutional holdings. #92132-1/BRM2499 $7,500.00
A virulent anti-Jackson broadside and interesting Judaic-Americana.
With the demise of the Federalists after the War of 1812, the Republican Party began to
fracture. “National Republicans” advocated a more robust Federal Government and attracted former Federalists such as John Quincy Adams. “Old” or “Radical Republicans” found their
support in the South and the West and represented the Jeffersonian preference for weak
central government, states’ rights, and an agricultural economy. Against this background of
deep differences the Election of 1828 pitted Adams against Tennessee war hero, Andrew
Jackson, in a vicious campaign. (Adams, for example, was accused of pimping for the
Czar during his service as Ambassador to Russia.)
This anonymous broadside attacks the hypocrisy of those in the media who had attacked
Jackson during the 1824 campaign and only four years later become ardent supporters.
A particular target is Mordecai Manuel Noah of New York City (1785-1851), a journalist
and politician and the first native-born Jew to achieve national fame. In 1824 his New York
Enquirer had excoriated Jackson, but four years later Noah, now running the Tammany
Hall machine, had made a deal to support the campaign in return for patronage.
The broadside suggests that “If Jackson succeeds, is there not an equal chance that he will string
up Noah? Some say he will let him off after cropping his ears.” Both possibilities are illustrated
by the cuts at upper left and right.
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17. Henry Clay. Painted by J. W.
Dodge, 1843. Engd. on steel by H. S.
Sadd, N.Y. Printed by John Neale. View
of Ashland in the title margin. Engraving
on steel, 1843. Image size 19 1/2 x 14
3/4” (49.3 x 37.5 mm). Good condition.
#49874-1 $1,400.00
16. Whig Mass Meeting on Boston Common, Sept. 19th 1844. : Return of the
Procession. : Respectfully inscribed to Clay Club No. 1, Boston. Joshua Sheldon, Jr.
(1809–1890). Thayer & Co’s Lithography, Boston. Two-color lithograph, 1844. Image size
12 5/16 x 21 1/8” (31.2 x 53.7 cm). Good condition, narrow margins. #39883-2 $3,000.00
This scene, after a painting by the landscape artist, Joshua Sheldon, Jr., depicts a rally just prior
to the 1844 Presidential election.
The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834 to oppose “King Andrew” Jackson who had
broken the National Republican Party with his election in 1828 and again in 1832. The Whigs
took the position that Congress should have more power than the President and favored
both protectionism and a national banking system. In 1836 they ran three candidates for
President, Daniel Webster, Hugh L. White, and William Henry Harrison. This was an attempt
to throw the election into the House of Representatives, but it was unsuccessful as Andrew
Jackson’s Vice President, Martin Van Buren, was elected the eighth President. In 1840 the
Whigs rallied behind William Henry Harrison who became the ninth President. In 1844 they
nominated the popular Henry Clay, but Democrat James K. Polk won the election. The Whig
Party dissolved over the slavery issue in 1854. Although that same year, the Republican Party
emerged from its ashes.
Whig Henry Clay (1777-1852) was a skilled politician and orator. He was elected in 1811 to the
House of Representatives for the state of Kentucky and served there through 1825, including
three non-consecutive terms as Speaker of the House. He later served as Secretary of State
under John Quincy Adams and as a Senator from Kentucky. He ran unsuccessfully for the
presidency in 1824, 1832, and 1844.
18. (left) James K. Polk. : Eleventh President of the United States. Lith. & Pub. by
N. Currier 2 Spruce St. N.Y. Lithograph handcolored, undated, c.1844. Small folio - image size
11 3/8 x 8 7/16” (28.9 x 21.5 cm). Good condition and color, save for discoloration mark in the
title margin. Conningham #3162. #3522-1 $300.00
James K. Polk was a close ally of Andrew Jackson and was often called “Young Hickory.”
19. (right) The Presidents of the United States. : Zachary Taylor : The : People’s Choice
for 12th President. Lith. & pub by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce New York.
Lithograph handcolored, 1848. Eleven portraits surrounding Zachary Taylor. Portraits from
center top clockwise: George Washington; Thos. Jefferson; James Monroe; Andrew Jackson;
Wm. H. Harrison; James K. Polk; John Tyler; Martin V. Buren; John Q. Adams; James
Madison. John Adams. Each has the years served at the top of the portrait. Small folio - image
size 12 7/8 x 8 7/8” (32.7 x 2.26 cm). Fair condition, good color. Discoloration mostly in the
margins, image is fairly bright. #78881-1 $425.00
Zachary Taylor was the last Whig Party candidate to be elected President.
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20. NATIONAL POLITICAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: A[dolphus]
Ranney, 195 Broadway / Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 52 La Salle St., [July-October, 1856.]
Lithograph, handcolored. Image size 36 3/8 x 29 3/8” (92.4 x 74.6 cm). Good condition. Toned,
with some repairs and restorations, lined. Eberstadt 110:234. OCLC 60034895 (Harvard,
Library of Congress, Princeton and SMU only). #BRM2563 #92166-1 $9,500.00
A rare map issued during the 1856 Presidential campaign, suggesting the threat posed by the
extension of slavery into the West.
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act established two new territories and repealed the Missouri
Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36° 30’.
In contrast, the 1854 Act explicitly specified that the new territories would resolve the slavery
question locally. Rather than calming the waters, however, the Act inflamed the country and
was a major step towards Civil War. On the ground the most visible consequence was
open warfare between Free and Slave Staters in “Bleeding Kansas.” Politically, the most
important results were the realignment of national politics along North-South fault lines, the
demise of the Whigs, and the birth of the Republican Party, which in June 1856 nominated
John C. Fremont as its first Presidential candidate. Conservative and southern Whigs formed
the short-lived American Party and nominated Millard Fillmore, while the Democrats chose James
Buchanan, the eventual winner.
Published during the campaign, this wonderful map depicts the United States with relatively
up-to-date state and territorial boundaries, with the line of the Missouri Compromise clearly
shown. Free states are in blue wash color, slave states in yellow, and the western territories
pink, with Kansas a darker pink. The color scheme would have given viewers the impression of
the free states in peril of being overwhelmed by an expansionist “Slave Power.”
The visual interest of the map is enhanced by half-length portraits of the candidates, and its
informational value is increased by columns of text and several statistical tables, notably a table
of electors by state at center left and a “Tabular View of the Chief Statistics of Each State in the
Union.” These tables suggest that the southern states, while decidedly behind the North on all
demographic, cultural, and economic measures, were able to advance their agenda by wielding
disproportionate power at the Federal level.
[Another example] NATIONAL POLITICAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES. New York:
A[dolphus] Ranney, 195 Broadway / Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 52 La Salle St., [July-October,
1856.] Lithograph, handcolored. Image size 36 3/8 x 29 3/8” (92.4 x 74.6 cm). Fair condition.
Toned, with mended cracks and tears, areas of border in facsimile, lined. Trimmed close on three
sides. #BRM2466 #92166-2 $7,500.00
21. Abraham Lincoln. : From the portrait taken from life by Charles A. Barry,
Springfield, Illinois, June 1860. : Mr. Barry’s portrait of ‘Honest Abe’ is a correct and
striking likeness. : Signed John Wood, Govr. of State. S. A. Sutton, Mayor of Springfield.
William Butler, State Department and 60 others. : I concur in the above John Wentworth,
Mayor of Chicago. Charles A. Barry (1830-1892). Drawn on stone by J. E. Baker. J. H.
Bufford’s Lith 310 Washington St. Boston. Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, Publishers for N. E. States.
New York edition Published by Geo Ward Nichols. Lithograph, 1860. Image size vignette
19 1/2 x 23” (49.5 x 58.4 cm). Good condition, save for minor soiling. Harold Holzer,
Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neeley, Jr., The Lincoln Image, pp. 50-56. #44301-2 $20,000.00
One of the rarest of all printed portraits of Abraham Lincoln as candidate.
Mr. Charles Alfred Barry, a noted Massachusetts artist was hired by a group of Boston citizens
to go to Springfield, Illinois, and make a crayon drawing which could be used as the basis of a
lithograph. Barry arrived in Springfield on the last Saturday in June, 1860. After explaining his
mission and offering a letter of introduction from Governor Banks, Mr. Lincoln addressed him as
follows:
“They want my head, do they? Well, if you can get it you may have it; that is, if you are able to take
it off while I am on the jump; But don’t fasten me onto a chair.’’
Barry said, “I worked faithfully upon the portrait, studying every feature most carefully for ten days,
and was more than fully rewarded for my labor when Mr. Lincoln, pointing to the picture, said:
‘Even my enemies must declare that to be a true likeness of ‘Old Abe.’”
The portrait should have been the most important of the Lincoln campaign. However, it
misfired with the public. One reviewer noted that the lithograph failed to reproduce the drawing.
However, a more likely explanation was the price of the lithograph. At the time, $3 was a lot
of money, so although the portrait was admired it was not purchased.
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22. “Uncle Sam” Making New Arrangements. Published by Currier & Ives, 152
Nassau St. N.Y. Lithograph, 1860. Medium folio - image size 9 1/5 x 15” (24.1 x 38.1 cm). Fair
condition, small hole in text above “John Bell” and some of the words strengthened above “Abraham
Lincoln.” Overall very nice. Conningham #6279. #92133-1 $4,000.00
A rare cartoon satirizing the split in the Democratic Party during the Election of 1860.
Outraged by what they saw as the party’s lukewarm support for the extension of slavery into the
Western Territories, Southern Democrats walked out of the national convention in Charleston.
They held a rival convention in Baltimore and nominated John C. Breckinridge for President.
Northern Democrats nominated Stephen A. Douglas.
From left to right: John Bell, Constitutional Union Party, carrying a sack and a sign with his
name and party. John C. Breckinridge, Democratic Party (Southern States), carrying a checkered
valise with his name and “Kentucky.” Stephen A Douglas, Democratic Party (Northern States),
carrying a valise with his name and “His bag.” Uncle Sam holding two signs. Abraham Lincoln,
Republican Candidate, carrying a valise with his name and “Illinois.” The sitting President,
Democrat James Buchanan, is seen in the window above the sign reading “The White House.”
Above John Bell: “I’m an old gentleman sir, but I have a good many friends, to help me take
care of your matters, if you’ll let me have the place.” John C. Breckinridge says in reference to
Douglas, “This little man in front of me sir, is an imposter; and I have the genuine Certificates,
and besides I can refer to the last incumbent.” Stephen A. Douglas pleads “Please Sir,
I’ve been trying a long time to get a recommendation for the place, and here it is at last,
you’ll find me a young man of regular habits.” Uncle Sam admonishes “You’re too late
gentlemen! I’ve concluded to take down the Notice and let Old Abe Lincon [sic] have the Place,
I find his record all right, and can safely trust him with the management of my affairs.”
Abraham Lincoln replies “Thank you sir, I will endeavor to do my duty.” James Buchanan, shown
packing “Dirty Linen,” observes that “It’s too bad! Here he’s give [sic] me Notice to pack, up and
quit without a character, and I’ll never be able to get another place.”
Uncle Sam is removing the sign “Wanted. An honest upright and capable man to take charge
of this house for four years. Undoubted testimonials will be required. Apply to Uncle Sam on the
Premises.” He hands Lincoln a sign “This is to Certify that I have hired A. Lincoln for four years
from March 1861.”
23. WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE. : MAP SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
THE NATIONAL ARMIES DURING THE YEARS 1861, 1862, 1863 AND 1864. New York:
Union Congressional Committee, [ca. Sept.-Oct. 1864.] Printed by John A. Gray & Green.
Letterpress broadside. Three lines of headline type above a wood-engraved map. Paper
size 24 x 19” (61 x 48.3 cm). Some minor damage along old folds, lined with a slightly larger
sheet of archival paper. OCLC gives examples at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Boston Public Library, Harvard, and the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies. Not in
Phillips; Rumsey; Stephenson, Civil War Maps; or Persuasive Cartography: The P J Mode
Collection. #92162-1/BRM2564 $2,250.00
The Republican Party fractured during the Civil War, with one wing breaking away
establish the Radical Democracy Party with John C. Fremont as its presidential
To facilitate a coalition with northern War Democrats, pro-Lincoln Republicans
themselves as the “National Union Party.” After Fremont dropped out of the
Lincoln’s sole opponent was Democrat George McClellan, formerly his top general.
in 1864 to
candidate.
rebranded
campaign,
This powerful broadside reprints the National Union and Democratic party platforms, then
enumerates their “points of difference” to paint the Democrats as the party of defeatism, slavery,
and even treason.
“The Union Platform regards the Rebellion as flagrantly wrong—iniquitous, inexcusable, and
justly exposing its contrivers to punishment. The Democratic, on the other hand, has no word of
condemnation for the treason, nor of reproof for its authors.”
The broadside is illustrated by a large map of the eastern two thirds of the country, with lines
indicating the “progress of the national armies” in each year of the war. The design conveys
the impression of an irresistible wave washing over the South, forcefully rebutting Democrats’
claims that the Lincoln administration’s war effort was failing. While accurate in a general
sense, this glosses over the war’s many vicissitudes and shifting fortunes, including the
bloody Overland Campaign of May-June 1864.
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25. OUR COUNTRY AS TRAITORS & TYRANTS WOULD HAVE IT: OR MAP OF THE
DISUNITED STATES. Waters & Son Engravers 90 Fulton St. N.Y. Published by H. H. Lloyd
& Co. New York. Lithograph handcolored, 1864.
Printed area 21 1/8” x 30 1/8”
(53.7 x 76.6 cm). Good condition. Minor repairs and restorations, upper margin extended,
lined on verso. Not in OCLC, Phillips, Rumsey, or Stephenson’s Civil War Maps. Provenance of
the Warren Heckrotte Collection. #91762-1/BRM2665 $12,500.00
An unrecorded map taking anti-secessionist propaganda to new heights.
24. HOW THE WAR COMMENCED, AND HOW NEAR IT IS ENDED. National Union Executive Committee, New York, Oct. 1, 1864. Broadside. Two lines of headline type and two columns
of text. Paper size 19 x 12” (48.3 x 30.5 cm), illustrated by a 5 x 11 ¼” wood-engraved map.
Very good condition. Minor soiling, right margin trimmed a bit close. OCLC #191231874 et al,
citing numerous institutional holdings. Persuasive Maps: P J Mode Collection, #1069. #921641/BRM2664 $1,600.00
“The end cannot be doubtful.”
This National Union Party broadside marshals historical events, statistics, and a striking map to
rebut Democratic claims that the Lincoln administration caused the war and that the northern war
effort was failing. It concludes with a ringing peroration:
“We have shown unmistakably who commenced the war. It must be apparent to all that the
Government has thus far a decided and preponderating advantage. The end cannot be
doubtful. They who violated the Divine Law have incurred the penalty, and will inevitably meet
the allotted punishment. They who took the sword are perishing by the sword.”
This map of the United States is densely populated with place names, forts, and
fortifications, and the names of Indian nations, while the topographic data is limited to the major
river systems and mountain ranges. The unusual pattern of color indicates the real point
of the map, which is to depict the United States dismembered into four smaller nations, just
as “traitors & tyrants would have it.” West of the Rockies (with the exception of New Mexico)
are the “Pacific States;” the “Interior States” occupy the mid-Atlantic and Plains; the “Atlantic
States” include Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England; and the remainder
constitutes the Confederate States, the largest of the four. To our knowledge, no other map of the
Civil War era depicted such an extreme vision of a secession-torn country.
Emphasizing the many threats to the Union, at lower right a bust of South Carolina
secessionist John Calhoun rests on a plinth flanked by a snake, the “tyrant” of Great Britain
is represented by a crowned lion gazing hungrily at the Great Lakes states, and at lower left
Napoleon III of France presents a crown to another tyrant, the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
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26. --- “WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE : DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN
VAIN.” : ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
COLONEL ALEXANDER BLISS COPY
Banner on wove paper, c.1868. Printed on four sheets backed on linen. Abraham Lincoln’s
name is a separate piece of paper applied. No printer identified. The period of the paper is the
second half of the nineteenth century. It is believed that this was produced and used after
Lincoln’s assassination, either for a Republican campaign banner or a GAR banner. Paper size
23 x 85” (58.4 x 215.9 cm). Overall good condition, with toning, remains of water stains,
and some age discoloration marks. Linen was replaced with archival paper backed linen.
A rare and important banner. #92134-1 $9,500.00
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The statement is a fragment of President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech,
the Gettysburg Address. There is a bit of confusion regarding the definitive text of the Address,
as he penned five slightly different variants. Additional versions of the speech appeared in
newspapers of the era as well. The most famous of the five examples is the Bliss Copy, which
is the only one of the five signed and dated by Abraham Lincoln and is reproduced on the
walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come
to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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The first (27) and third (28) in a series of harsh anti-Lincoln satires by Bromley & Co.
27. The satire shows Lincoln, his cabinet members and supporters as undertakers burying the
Constitution, Free Speech & Free Press, Habeas Corpus and Union. The President was
displeased with Attorney General Edward Bates’s slowness in enforcing the Conspiracies Act.
He took matters into his own hands by issuing a proclamation “directing trial by court
martial or military commissions of all persons who impeded the draft, discouraged
enlistments or committed other disloyal acts.” Some thirty-eight thousand people were
arrested, denied the right of habeas corpus, and held in jail until brought to trial. This heavyhanded act provided the fuel for the artist’s attack.
Identified above title from left to right, Cochrane, Butler, Meagher, Dickinson, Beecher, Stanton,
Greely [sic], Lincoln, Sumner, Chase, Welles, Seward.
28. Lincoln is shown wrecking the nation, depicted as a train, while his rival Democratic
candidate, George B. McClellan, rides his all the way to the White House. Lincoln’s train, named
“Abolitionism,” has crashed onto rocks labeled “Confiscation,” “Emancipation,”
“$400,000,000,000 public debt,” and “To Whom It May Concern.” Lincoln flies through the air
with Horace Greeley and his cabinet and supporters. George B. McClellan’s train features a
banner “Constitution” and cars entitled “Union.” McClellan taunts Lincoln “Would’nt you like to
swap horses now? Lincoln?”
27. The Grave of the Union. : Or Major Jack Downing’s Dream, Drawn by Zeke.
Published by Bromley & Co. Lithograph, 1864. Image size 14 1/2 x 19 7/16” (36.8 x 49.4 cm).
#17287 NFS
29. That’s the Ticket! : A Century of
American Political Ballots. The Rail Splitter
Press, New York, 2012. By Donald L.
Ackerman and Jonathan H. Mann. 146
numbered pages profusely illustrated. Soft
cover. Quarto 11 x 8 1/2” (27.9 x 21.6 cm).
Very good condition. #92172 $29.00
28. The Abolition Catastrophe. : Or the November Smash-up. Published by Bromley & Co.
Lithograph, 1864. Image size 14 1/4 x 19 3/8” (36.3 x 49.2 cm). #17288 NFS
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30. Andrew Johnson. : President of the
United States. Engraved and Published by
J. C. Buttre 48 Franklin St. New York. Border
designed by W. Momberger. Photograph by
Morse.
Engraving, 1866.
Image size
13 x 9 7/8” (33 x 25.2 cm). Good condition.
#81313-1 $250.00
With the assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln, his Vice President, Andrew Johnson,
became the seventeenth President of the
United States. After the War, Johnson found
himself at odds with the Republicancontrolled Congress over Reconstruction.
Congress had put restrictions on the
presidency and when Johnson dismissed
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, he was
viewed as having violated the “Tenure of
Office Act.” The House voted eleven articles
of impeachment against him on February 24,
1868, and on March 5 the impeachment trial
began in the Senate. After a three-month
trial, thirty-five Senators voted “Guilty” and
nineteen voted “Not Guilty,” one vote shy of
the two thirds majority needed to impeach
Johnson.
32. GRANT CLUB! : Grant. Colfax. :
The Members of the Grant Campaign
Club, are directed to assemble at the
Club Rooms, on : Wednesday Evening :
September 30, 1868, : At a Quarte
[sic] to Seven O’clock, (sharp) prepard
[sic] : TO MARCH TO THE MEETING :
AT : Darlington’s Corner. : Frank C.
Hooton, President. Geo. F. Smith, Sec’y.
Hampton S. Thomas, Marshall. : Sept.
29, 1868. Printed at the Office of the
“Village Record,” West Chester, Pa.
Broadside on wove paper, 1868. Twelve
lines of text with a woodcut of an eagle
with spread wings with a banner reading
“Grant. Colfax.” Paper size 19 3/4 x 14”
(50.2 x 35.6 cm). Overall good, small hole
in top margin above “Grant,” crease in
center with some associated tears, and
minor toning. Nothing serious on a rare
political broadside. #92135-1 $5,500.00
This broadside is likely a printer’s proof.
There are two noted spelling errors on the
sheet with marks where to put the corrected
letters in “Quarte” should be “Quarter” the R
is in pencil in the outer margin and “prepard”
should be “prepared” with the E in pencil in
the outer margin.
Political club broadsides were ephemeral
and are now quite rare. Most were printed
in small quantities and pasted up around the
town where they were to be used.
31. Ulysses S. Grant. William E. Marshall
(1837-1906). Copyright 1885 by Wm. E.
Marshall. Engraving, 1885. A strong proof
before title initialed “W.E.M.” in the lower right
margin. Image size 11 13/16 x 8 3/4”
(30 x 22.2 cm). Good condition, some tears
in the outer margins, but wide margins top
and side. Generally a strong, beautiful
impression. #230-2 $450.00
33. Republican Rally! : Hayes and
Wheeler. : Maj. C. H. Roys : and : B. C.
Williams : will address the electors of
Savannah at : The Evans Schoolhouse,
: Savannah, : Saturday Eve., Oct. 21,
‘76. : Let there be a full turnout to hear
the issues of the present campaign
ably and fairly discussed : by these
gentlemen. : By Order of the Committee : Savannah, October 18, 1876. No
printer or publisher identified. Broadside on
wove paper, 1876. Twelve lines of text and
woodcut of eagle holding a banner “Hayes
and Wheeler.” Paper size 23 1/8 x 17 5/8”
(53.7 x 44.8 cm). Fair condition, folded
vertically and horizontally, losses at the
fold intersections and along the center
horizontal fold. #92140-1 $1,750.00
This broadside was likely issued in the
Village of Savannah in Wayne County,
New York.
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34. POLERAISING! : The : TILDEN & HENDRICKS : Reform : Club : At Federal Stores : in
Chatham, : Will Raise a Pole, September 7th, at 2 O’Clock P.M. : at their Head Quarters
: Maurinus Hotel. : The speakers expected to be present on the occasion, are as follows,
viz. : Edward R. Peck, Esq, Albany N. Y. : Galen R. Mitt Esq Albany N. Y. : John B. Longley
Esq, : Hudson N. Y. : Hon : Hugh W. McClellan : Chatham Village, N. Y. : Clubs from
adjoining districts and towns; and the people generally: are invited : to attend, by the
club above named. : Federal Stores, Chatham. : Aug. 30th 1876. : Chauncey A. King :
Secretary.” Chatham Reaper Print. Broadside on wove paper, 1876. Twenty-three lines of text
printed in two colors, black and dark blue. Paper size 32 1/4 x 15 5/8” (81.9 x 39.7 cm).
Fair condition, center fold and four horizontal folds with associated minor losses. Overall, a
beautiful broadside. #92142-1 $4,000.00
The Centennial Presidential election was the most contested in United States history up to that
point. In the first round of balloting it appeared that the Democratic candidate Samuel
J. Tilden and running mate Thomas A. Hendricks were the winners with 184 electoral
and 4,285,992 popular votes. Their opponents, Republicans Rutherford B. Hayes and
William A. Wheeler, had 165 electoral and 4,034,311 popular votes. However, 20 electoral
votes were disputed with both parties claiming victory in Florida, Louisiana, and South
Carolina, and one elector in Oregon was replaced after being declared illegal. The Compromise
of 1877 awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes, giving him the Presidency.
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35. YOUNG : REPUBLICAN RALLY : at : Faneuil Hall, : Tuesday Evening, Sept. 10 : at
8 o’clock. : The meeting will be addressed by : GEN. JAS. A. GARFIELD : of Ohio, : On
the Political Issues of the Day. : All, whether young or old, Republicans or : Democrats,
are cordially invited to attend : per order of the : Young Republican Committee. Gunn
Bliss & Co., Printers, 31 Hawley Street, Boston. Broadside on wove paper, 1878. Paper size
29 1/8 x 20 7/8” (74 x 53 cm). Good condition, mounted on new linen. Top left corner replaced
not affecting the text. Overall a nice broadside. #92144-1 $2,500.00
The election of 1880 pitted Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur against
Democratic war hero Winfield S. Hancock and his running mate William H English. Garfield and
Arthur won the election with 214 electoral votes compared to 155 for Hancock and English.
The popular vote was much closer with the Republicans carrying a narrow .02% majority,
representing fewer than 10,000 votes.
James A. Garfield was born in 1831 to a poor family in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and was
fatherless at age two. He managed to attend Williams College, graduating in 1856. Garfield
quickly entered politics, serving first in the Ohio State Senate, followed by nine terms in the
House of Representatives. He was elected to the Senate before his candidacy for President.
Once he was elected he declined the Senate position.
During the Civil War he served in the Union Army and at the age of 31 became a
Brigadier General and later a Major General of Volunteers. In 1862 Ohio elected him to
Congress and President Lincoln persuaded him to resign his military commission. The Garfield
Presidency was marked by a resurgence of Presidential authority against Senatorial courtesy
in executive appointments, the purging of corruption from the Post Office, and strengthening
the American Navy. He was shot on July 2, 1881, by an embittered attorney and succumbed
to his wounds on September 19 of that year.
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36. Genl. Jas A. Garfield - Genl. Chester A. Arthur. Copyright 1880 by Hugh McCrossan.
Bandana printed in red, blue and black on white cloth, 1880. Size 17 3/4 x 17 1/4”
(45.1 x 43.8 cm). Joseph Laing, lith. 10 & 12 Dev St. New York. Fair condition, remains of some
water stains otherwise a beautiful example. Collins Threads of History #475. #92146-1 $650.00
Eagle and banners on top, scenes of a canal boat and harbor scene with commerce below the
portraits. Above the canal boat is Garfield, who went to work on the canal boat teams in
his youth. Below Chester A. Arthur is the harbor scene. He served as a Quartermaster
General for the state of New York, and President Grant appointed him collector for the Port of
New York in 1871.
38.
BROWN’S POLITICAL CHART.
Lith. By A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore MD.
[Greenville?], South Carolina: Walter W. Brown, 1882. Lithograph printed in color. Image size
22 7/8 x 17 3/4” (58.1 x 45.1 cm). Good condition. Toned and chipped at edges with a few
mended edge tears. Backed on Japan paper. Not in OCLC. #92167-1/BRM2485 $2,250.00
An unrecorded historical chart tracing the rise and fall of American political parties from the
Constitutional Convention through the presidential election of 1880.
37. NOTICE! : A Meeting of the Garfield and Arthur Club, : of Doylestown, : Will be
held at the club room, on : Friday Evening, Oct. 22d, : at 7:30 o’clock. punctual
Attendance is requested. : By Order of the President. Broadside on wove paper, 1880.
No printer identified. Seven lines of text between three ruled lines. Paper size 11 5/8 x 18 5/8”
(29.5 x 47.3 cm). Fair condition, several holes and punctures. The acidic ink has degraded the
paper. Still a remarkable and beautiful broadside. #92143-1 $1,500.00
Each party is represented by a stream of a particular color—Democrats blue, Greenbacks
green, and so on—with its fluctuating electoral success indicated by the width of its stream.
As the streams “flow” down the page, they cross a series of parallel lines, with each of the
spaces between the lines representing a four-year presidential term. The corresponding
President and Vice President for each term are named at far left, while the candidates put up by
each party are identified, along with their electoral vote tally.
The chart was designed and marketed by Walter Wideman Brown (ca. 1856-1900), a
Greenville, South Carolina educator and author who for a time was principal of the nonsectarian
Murfreesboro (TN) Academy.
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39. Hon. James G. Blaine. : of Maine, : Republican Candidate for President of the
U. S., 1884 : Gen. John A. Logan. : of Illinois : Republican Candidate for Vice-President
of the U.S. 1884. No printer or artist identified. Banner, lithograph printed on cotton fabric,
1884. Size 25 x 28 1/4” (63.5 x 71.8 cm). Overall good condition, some scattered red stains and
a few fox marks. Collins Threads of History #506. #92148-1 $1,250.00
40. John A. Logan : James G. Blaine.
No artist or printer noted. Bunting, woodcut printed in red, blue, and brown on white
cotton, 1884. Size 24 x 23” (61 x 58.4 cm).
Fair condition, stitched edges to close the
fabric left and right. On the right side some
losses to the outer oval of Blaine’s portrait.
Very rare to find buntings in any condition.
#92150-1 $800.00
This rare bunting features red, white, and
blue stripes with stars in the blue field with
the Logan and Blaine portraits printed in
brown. The illustration in Threads of History
shows Blaine then Logan, while here the order
is reversed.
The Presidential election of 1884 saw Blaine
and Logan running against Democrats
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks.
The anti-monopoly Greenbacks and the
Prohibition Party also ran candidates though
neither drew any electoral votes.
The
election saw a Democrat win the White House
for the first time since 1856. Cleveland and
Hendricks received 219 electoral votes to
Blaine and Logan’s 182. Only slightly over
50,000 votes separated the two parties.
41. CAMPAIGN OF 1884. : THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, : JOHN BULL AND ALL
OTHER FOREIGNERS FOR FREE TRADE. : VS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY : AND UNCLE
JONATHAN FOR PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. . . Jas. G. Blaine, Sept. 24,
1884. Avil & Co., Show Printers, 3941.5 Market Street, Phila., Pa., 1884. Broadside printed
in black on wove paper. Paper size 37 1/2 x 23 3/4” (95.3 x 60.3 cm), central illustration
14 x 22” (35.6 x 55.9 cm). Flanked by sixteen lines of text top and bottom. Good condition,
save for minor soiling, folds flattened, and a few minor repairs. OCLC #20499263 (Detroit
Public Library and Peabody Essex Museum only). #92157-1/BRM2524 $4,500.00
A dramatic and very rare poster for Republican James Blaine’s 1884 presidential campaign
against Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Blaine (1830-1893) had a long and distinguished career as a Maine congressman
and senator, Secretary of State to three Presidents, and the 1884 Republican presidential
nominee. This poster emphasizes his and fellow Republicans’ embrace of populism and
protectionism, with a soupçon of nativism, in contrast to the free trade advocated by
Democrats, “John Bull and all other foreigners.” To emphasize the message a large central
illustration depicts Americans manning the ramparts of “Protection,” ready to fire a cannon
labeled “Republican Record.” Across the water in the distance looms “hungry John Bull with
his cargo of merchandise waiting for Democratic Free traders to open American ports.”
Handicapped by allegations of corruption and anti-Catholicism, Blaine lost the election to
Grover Cleveland.
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44. Harrison & Morton. : Tippecanoe and Morton Too! (Lantern in eight sections).
Produced by Sprague & French of Norwalk, Ohio. Relief print, in red, blue, yellow, green and
black, 1888. Eight attached gores, each 23 1/4 x 7” (59.1 x 17.8 cm). Fair to good condition.
Some minor staining, creasing, and tears from use. #91882-1 $1,750.00
42. Our Candidates : For President : Grover Cleveland : 1888 : For Vice President : Allen
G. Thurman. No printer or artist identified. Bandana printed in red, pink, and black on white
cotton, 1888. Size 19 1/8 x 19 1/8” (48.6 x 48.6 cm). Good condition, save for an occasional
fox mark. Not in Collins, Threads of History but similar to 618-622. #92151-1 $650.00
In Collins, Threads of History several bandanas with similar compositions are illustrated, each
with different decorative borders.
A printed lantern produced in 1888 for the Presidential campaign of Benjamin Harrison and
Levi Morton. Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the ninth President, and
Republicans capitalized on his political lineage. Slogans “Tippecanoe” and symbols, log
cabins and barrels of cider originally popular during the 1840 race adorned Benjamin
Harrison’s campaign materials.
45. Which Will it Be? : The National :
Republican : Convention : will be held
at : Minneapolis : June 7, 1892. . . . The
Dark Horse. Rand, McNally & Co., Printers,
Chicago.
Woodcut with text printed in
three colors, red, tan and black, 1892.
Five portraits at the top Benjamin Harrison.
Wm. McKinley. James G.Blaine. R. A. Alger. Chauncey M. Depew.
Image size
15 1/2 x 5 3/16” (39.4 x 13.2 cm). Overall
good condition and color. #92152-1 $750.00
The Republican Convention was held
from June 7-10, 1892, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. President Benjamin Harrison
won the party’s nomination on the first ballot
with James G. Blaine and William McKinley
a distant second. Abraham Lincoln’s son,
Robert Todd, received one vote. The 1892
Republican
Convention
was
a
milestone, as it was the first Presidential
convention where women were allowed to
be delegates. Therese Alberta (Parkinson)
Jenkins from Wyoming cast the first delegate
vote by a woman at the convention.
43. For President : Benjamin Harrison. : For Vice President : Levi P. Morton. :
Protection vs Free Trade. : Pensions for Soldiers. : Aid for Free Schools. Patented
June 28, 1888. A. S. Rosenthal & Co., N.Y. Bandana printed in blue and red on white silk, 1888.
Size 17 1/4 x 20 1/2” (44.8 x 51.4 cm). Good condition. Occasional faint staining and
small holes. Collins, Threads of History #638. 92074-1 $1,100.00
This bandana was published immediately after Harrison and Morton secured their nominations at
the Republican National Convention in June of 1888.
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46. NEELY’S NEW REVERSIBLE HISTORICAL CHART, Political Map AND UNITED
STATES MAP COMBINED. PRICE … $5.00. Rand, McNally & Co., Engr[aver]s. Chicago: F. T.
Neely, 1893. Lithograph printed in color. Paper size 44 x 66” (111.8 x 167.6 cm). Somewhat
toned, some mended cracks and tears, staining largely confined to margins. Backed with linen—
necessary for conservation—obscuring a map of North America printed on the verso.
OCLC locates only two institutional holdings (BPL, Tennessee State Library.) Not in Phillips or
Rumsey. #92168-1/BRM2536 $3,500.00
Perhaps best described as a “geopolitical compendium,” the lower half of this impressive image
features a series of small maps and statistical charts with geopolitical and cultural content.
The real star of the show is a “Diagram of the History of Political Parties in the United States”
occupying the top half. This charts the evolution and interrelationships of American political
parties, depicting them as rivers and streams flowing in to and out of one another. For example,
the Federalist “stream” is shown merging with the Democratic-Republicans around 1820,
though by the Election of 1828 the Republicans are shown diverging into Democratic
and National Republican streams. Each party has captions highlighting its major principles,
positions, and legislative accomplishments. This chart is flanked above by portraits of
each President and a list of their cabinets and congressional leaders, and below by the results
of every election through 1896.
47. William McKinley. Jacques Reich (1852-1923). Published by Frances B. Johnston.
Etching printed on vellum, 1902. Signed in pencil lower left and inscribed “Artist’s proof from
the copper.” Also signed in the plate lower left. Etched below image lower right is the first line
of Sarah Flower Adams’ Christian hymn, “Near-er, my God, to Thee! Near-er, to Thee.” Image
size 19 7/8 x 14 1/8” (50.4 x 35.8 cm). Good condition. Some rippling of the vellum and a line
of glue residue along the right edge. #91445-1 $750.00
An unusual portrait - both stately and sentimental. President William McKinley is shown
giving what would be his last speech while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New
York. Over fifty thousand spectators packed the Esplanade to hear him. The next day - Friday,
September 6, 1901 – anarchist Leon Czolgosz approached the President during a reception at
the Exposition and shot him several times. McKinley died eight days later. Witnesses claimed
that in his final moments he sang a stanza from his favorite hymn “Nearer My God to Thee.”
In the 1896 election Republicans William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart had run a decisive
campaign, winning with 271 electoral votes to William J. Bryan and Arthur Seawall’s 176.
McKinley and Garret also carried the popular vote by over 400,000. In McKinley’s first term
the country and its economy were growing rapidly. He promoted the Dingley Tariff act raising
duties on foreign imports and secured the Gold Standard Act. Due to pressure from
Democrats in Congress, he declared war on Spain mostly over the Cuban conflict. The war
began on April 25, 1898, and ended on August 12 of that year, after fighting in Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Philippines, and Guam. McKinley also annexed Hawaii in 1898 although it did not become a state
until 1959.
In the 1900 election McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ran against Democrats William J. Bryan
and Adlai E. Stevenson. McKinley and Roosevelt won a second election with a larger margin
than in 1896, but McKinley was assassinated six months into his second term. Vice President
Roosevelt became the Twenty-sixth President.
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48. The Issue - 1900 : Liberty : Justice : Humanity : W. J. Bryan : No Crown of Thorns :
No Cross of Gold : Equal Rights to All Special Privileges to None. Copyright 1900 by
Neville Williams Columbus, Ohio. Lithograph printed in color with metal foil printed on the coin,
1900. Paper size 29 5/8 x 19 5/8 (75.3 x 49.9 cm). Good condition and color, mounted on
new linen. A brilliant and rare broadside. #92153-1 $8,500.00
A wonderful political poster issued before the 1900 Democratic convention and replete with
symbolism. Lady Liberty is seen with an ax labeled “Democracy” attacking a mammoth octopus
whose arms protect large American industries including “U.S. Biscuit Co.,” “American Tobacco
Trust,” “American Steel Trust,” and “Standard Oil Trust.” Another Lady Liberty representing
blind justice stands to the left of Bryan’s portrait. At lower right three figures bearing
flags (probably representing countries captured during the Spanish American War) face the
Statue of Liberty and state “Give us Liberty or Give us death.” At top are a rooster, plow, and
two Liberty Bells. The bell at right is labeled “1900 No Imperialism.”
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was born and raised in Illinois then moved to Lincoln,
Nebraska, in the late 1880’s. He was trained as a lawyer and was a skilled orator and
politician, serving in Congress and then as Secretary of State. A committed pacifist, he resigned
his position when the United States joined WWI. He was a strong advocate for popular
democracy and stood against the banks and the gold standard, demanding free silver
because he believed it would put more cash in the hands of the common people. He was also a
strong supporter of Prohibition and on religious grounds rejected Darwin’s theory of
biological evolution in favor of church teachings. He ran for President in 1896, 1900,
and 1908. He lost each time to Republican rivals.
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49.
For : President : Theodore Roosevelt : 1904 : For : Vice-President :
Chas-W-Fairbanks : 1904 : Protection to American Industries. No printer noted, but
according to Collins in Threads of History, the distributors were Lyon Brothers of Madison, Maine,
and the bandana was advertised for 85 cents per dozen. Bandana printed in red, blue and
brown on white cotton, 1904. Size 23 1/2 x 22 1/2” (60 x 57.5 cm). Good condition with full color.
Collins, Threads of History #863. #85194-2 $1,250.00
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was a driving force for the Progressive Era. He ran as William McKinley’s
running mate and became President after McKinley’s assassination. In 1904 he ran for President
with Charles W. Fairbanks, winning with a record 336 Electoral votes and over 2,500,000 more
votes than their challengers.
During his administration Roosevelt began the Panama Canal (1903-1914). He was a noted
“trust-buster,” believing that Wall Street financiers and the powerful trusts and corporations
were ignoring the suffering of average Americans. Although a man of considerable means,
he criticized the wealthy for the continued exploitation of the public. He used the 1890 “Sherman
Antitrust Act” to break up some of the largest corporations in America.
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50. THE ADVANCE THRESHER CO. :
THE ADVANCE IN THRESHING FROM
WASHINGTON TO ROOSEVELT. Buffalo:
Gies & Co., ca. 1904? Chromolithograph.
Sheet size 35 1/8 x 24 5/8” (89.2 x 62.5 cm).
Good condition, colors a touch faded. Minor
soiling, some damage along top edge
including a mended tear extending
2” into printed image. #92178-1/BRM2594
$3,500.00
A lovely chromolithographic poster by the
Advance Thresher Co. of Battle Creek,
Michigan, appropriating political imagery to
promote farm machinery.
The poster employs a presidential theme
highlighting
George
Washington
and
Theodore Roosevelt, suggesting that it was
produced during the latter’s 1904 re-election
campaign. At top large portrait busts of
the two presidents flank a figure bearing the
“Advance” standard, with smaller busts of
the other presidents running around the
border. Below the subtitle “The Advance in
Threshing from Washington to Roosevelt,”
two large vignettes contrast the primitive
state of threshing at Mount Vernon with the
wonders of the early 20th century. We find
but a single other example, held by the
Huntington Library.
51.
William Howard Taft.
Albert
Rosenthal (1863-1939). Etching, 1912.
Signed in pencil. Inscribed “Robert Bacon
- from his friend F. R. Appleton.” Image size
19 9/16 x 14 5/8” (49.8 x 37.3 cm). Good
condition. Mounted as issued. #86133-1
$950.00
Etched for Francis R. Appleton by Albert
Rosenthal, 1912 after the painting by
Anders Zorn in the White House. Edition;
Thirty Remarque and Forty lettered
impressions, plate destroyed.
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52.
VOTES FOR WOMEN A SUCCESS : NORTH AMERICA PROVES IT.
New York: National Woman Suffrage
Publishing Company, June, 1917. Small
broadside. Sheet size 10 x 7” (25.4 x 17.8 cm).
Gently toned, two small areas of
discoloration at top center, horizontal
centerfold. #92179-1/BRM 2595 $450.00
“A prototypical promotional map of the
woman’s suffrage movement”
The handbill features a small map of
North America, with American states and
Canadian provinces shown in simple outline,
each shaded according to the political status
granted to its women. The general pattern
is of full woman’s suffrage in the western
states and the southern tier of Canadian
provinces, with little or none elsewhere.
A note at the bottom points out that in
1916-17 five Canadian provinces granted women full suffrage and ends with the
exhortation “How long will the Republic of
the United States lag behind the Monarchy
of Canada?”
By 1900 only four states (beginning with Wyoming in 1869) had granted women the vote,
and the suffrage effort was flagging. But a new generation of leaders revivified the
movement, introducing new tactics such as this map.
“A prototypical promotional map of the woman’s suffrage movement in the U. S.,
using the spread of suffrage across the country (or in this case, North America)
to ‘prove’ the ‘success’ of votes for women. The use of maps like this to ‘brand’
the suffrage movement effectively has been called ‘the most extensive use of a single
iconic map image for persuasive purposes in the United States.’”
(Persuasive Maps: P J Mode Collection, #1193)
53.
Gloire. : Aux : Americans :
Souvenir de France. : G. Washington : President Wilson : Gl. LaFayette.
No printer or artist identified.
Kerchief
printed in red and blue on white silk, 1918.
Size 11 1/8 x 11 3/8” (28.3 x 28.9 cm).
Fair condition, edge glued to a card some
color bleed is present. Collins Threads of
History #1022. #92154-1 $400.00
The kerchief bears an image of the Statue
of Liberty and portraits of George
Washington, Woodrow Wilson (from a
1910 photograph), and the Marquis de
LaFayette. The portraits are surrounded
by flags of foreign nations.
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54. It’s an Elephant’s Job - : No Time for ‘Donkey-Business’! : Vote The Republican
Ticket! Copyright 1932 C. L. Robinson. Artist initialed within the image JWL. Trade Mark Reg.
U.S. Pat. Off. Ferry-Hanley Advertising Co. In lower left corner “Local No. 4 Union
Lithographers Label of America.” Color lithograph, 1932. Paper size 15 1/2 x 34”
(39.4 x 86.4 cm). Fair condition, mild overall toning, tear in the top 2 1/4 inches long.
#92155-1 $1,750.00
A wonderful image for the 1932 Presidential campaign, showing the G.O.P. (Republican)
elephant pushing Uncle Sam and U. S. & Co. up a slippery slope with the (Democratic)
donkey dancing in a field. The farmer and beautiful farm in the distance is a romantic image
of the heartland of America.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in The Old Print Shop, Inc. In late November or early December
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the gallery. Roosevelt had been a client of the gallery
for many years and was a noted collector of American Naval prints, primarily from the War of
1812. Protocol in the 1930’s was that he should not hang images of the Americans
defeating the British as they were our allies. Therefore, his visit in 1932 was to purchase
images of the Hudson valley to decorate the oval office.
Over the years The Old Print Shop, Inc., has worked with Presidents, Senators, and
Congressmen to help them build their American art collections.
55. (left) The Lightning Speed of Honesty. Thomas Nast (1840-1902). Published by
Harper’s Weekly. November 24, 1877. Wood engraving. Image size 13 5/8 x 9 1/4”
(34.6 x 23.5 cm). Good condition. #91359-1 $125.00
56. (right) The Millennium. : The Tiger and the Lamb Lie Together. Thomas Nast
(1840-1902). Published by Harper’s Weekly November 3, 1877. Wood engraving. Image size
10 3/4 x 9 1/8” (27.2 x 23.2 cm). Good condition. #91352-1 $125.00
Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was born in Landau, Germany, and came to the United States with
his family as a young man. He did poorly in school but excelled in drawing, and in late 1855
he was hired by Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. In 1862 he was hired by Harper’s Weekly,
where he made a name for himself as a political satirist. In fact, his satires were so popular
that he influenced politics at large. Indeed, he is noted for establishing the donkey and
elephant as symbols of the Democratic and Republican Parties.
The wood engravings are in good condition, full descriptions and images can be found at
oldprintshop.com.
Can the Law Reach Him? - The Dwarf and the Giant Thief. 1872. .......#91659
What I Know about Horace Greeley. 1872. .............................................#91473
Every Public Question with an Eye Only to the Public Good. 1873. .....#91649
Captured at Last (June 3, 1875). Phil. Sheridan. “I am not afraid.” 1875. ...#91974
The Plank - Hitting the Nail on the Head. 1875. .....................................#91993
“Any Thing for a Change.” 1876. ............................................................. #91655
Declaration of Equality. - Justice. “Five More Wanted.” 1876. .............#91990
The Democratic Tiger-in-the-Manger, and the Submissive (M)asses. 1876 ...#91979
The Duty of the Hour. : The (U. S.) Republic.
“I am CUT, but NOT DEAD.” 1876. ......................................................... #91411
“He Wants a Change Too.” 1876. ............................................................#91976
The Ignorant Vote - Honors are Easy. 1876. ............................................#91427
“The Elephant Walks Around” - And the “Still Hunt” is Nearly Over. 1876. ....#91975
Britannia Lionizing Our Modern Ulysses. 1877. .....................................#91991
Uncle Sam’s Position. . . . 1877. ............................................................... #91657
Death at the Polls, and Free from “Federal Interference.” 1879 ..........#91413
Liberty is Not Anarchy. 1886. ...................................................................#91386
Our System of Feathering Nests Breeds Tweeds
All Over the Land. 1886. .......................................................................#91379
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57. Stump Speaking. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879). Painted by G. C. Bingham.
Engraved by Gautier. Published by Goupil & Co., New York, Paris, London. Handcolored
stipple, line, and aquatint engraving, 1856. Image size 22 5/16 x 30” (56.5 x 76.1 cm).
Fair condition and color, several repaired tears and overall toning. A nice impression. #43610-2
$3,750.00
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59. The Verdict of the People. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879). After a painting by George Calib Bingham. Anonymous German lithographer 1858-59. Paper size
21 5/8 x 29 3/4” (54.9 x 75.5 cm). #26491 NFS
E. Maurice Bloch in George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne states that only two
impressions of this print are known, both proofs before title. The two known impressions in the
1967 catalogue were in the collection of Mrs. A. S. Colgate of Tuxedo Park, N.Y. now in the
Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and in the Estate of Curtis B. Rollins, Columbia,
Missouri, now in the Missouri Historical Society. Therefore, this is the third known impression.
There are two stories as to why this print is so rare. The artist’s son, J. R. Bingham, sold one
version to C. B. Rollins in 1909. According to J. R. Bingham, Goupil was hired to publish
the print in 1870 and two proofs were produced and sent to the artist for his approval. By the
time the order for 5,000 prints arrived in Paris, the Franco-Prussian War had started and the
stone had been destroyed at Goupil’s printing studio.
E. Maurice Bloch discovered another scenario. Citing a letter written by George C. Bingham
on June 3, 1857, the artist stated that he did not want to sell the publication rights to Goupil,
but he wanted to publish the print for his own benefit. Unable to find a lithographer in Paris,
he located one in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he was staying. In August 1858 Bingham
indicated that the work was in progress but that there had been some difficulties with the
lithographer and the completion of the print had been delayed. It is obvious that the project was
eventually finished; however, there was no edition ever printed.
George Caleb Bingham is considered by many to be America’s finest genre painter. A number
of his printed images have a political theme. Three large prints were produced after his “Election
Series” paintings. The first published was the “County Election,” second “Stump Speaking,”
and as discussed above “The Verdict of the People” exists in proofs only.
58. The County Election. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879). Painted by George Caleb
Bingham. Engraved by John Sartain. Published by Goupil & Co., New York, Paris, London.
Stipple and line engraving, printed chine-colle, 1854. Image size 22 1/4 x 30” (56.4 x 76 cm).
Very good condition, save for some minor foxing and damp stain along outer edges of margins.
Extra wide margins. #3660-7 $7,000.00
Bingham was sent to the Whig convention at Rocheport, Missouri, in 1840. It is believed that at
this time he must have realized the artistic possibilities of the political scene and filled his drawing
book up with sketches which were later utilized for his large compositions.
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60. [National Historical Chart.] National Historical Chart Co. [Long Prairie, MN,]
1890 [but prob. 1891]. Lithograph printed in six colors. Image size 16 x 234 1/4”
(40.6 x 595 cm). Mounted on linen as issued. Housed in a new facsimile case of maple and
laminated maple veneer with brass fittings and two steel cranks. Good condition. Chart with
minor fraying and staining. OCLC lists but a single example at the Lilly Library, and another is at
the Library of Congress. #92169-1/BRM2539 $6,500.00
A marvelous, informative, and extraordinarily rare chart of American history.
A masterpiece of graphic design, this chart tells the story of American history chronologically
from the Revolution to the administration of President Benjamin Harrison. It is divided into
blocks by administration, with each block listing the president and his cabinet, major issues
of the day, events, inventions, discoveries, people &c. The whole is extensively illustrated with
portrait busts, pictorial vignettes of significant events and places, and a small map of each state
shown in the year it was admitted to the Union. Of particular interest, flowing through the
center of the chart are interweaving “streams” indicating the major political parties, color coded
by party. One can track the rise, fall, and occasional resuscitation of parties as the streams
flow in to and out of one another. The same color coding—for example, pink for the Federalists—
is used in a table at the bottom to indicate the majority party in each house of Congress for
any given time.
The chart was produced with dowels mounted at each end and housed in a two-part wooden
case with steel cranks for winding. Our example features a new facsimile case, based on
images and specifications taken from the example held by the Lilly Library at the University
of Indiana. It is in excellent working order.