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TITLE: Grand democratic free soil banner
CALL NUMBER: PGA - Currier & Ives--Grand democratic free soil banner (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-2465 (color film copy slide)
LC-USZ62-5124 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY: Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August 10, appear in roundel bust portraits framed with laurel. Below the portraits is an oval vignette, between two overflowing cornucopias, of a farm scene showing a man working a field with a horse-drawn plough. Above, resting on bed of clouds that surround the portaits, and flanked by American flags, is the "Temple of Liberty," a peripteral structure with a small dome and the figure of Liberty within. Perched atop the temple is a bald eagle with an olive branch and arrows. Inscribed above the eagle and beneath two rows of stars is the motto: "Free Soil--Free Labor--Free Speech" an abridged rendering of the party's slogan, "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, and Free Men."
MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph with watercolor ; image 33.2 x 23.1.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [New York] : Lith. & pub. by N[athaniel] Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor[ner] of Spruce, N.Y., c1848.
CREATOR:
NOTES:
"From Daguerreotypes by [John] Plumbe."
The Library's impression of the banner was deposited for copyright on September 1, 1848. DLC
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2690
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-8.
TOPICS:
Adams, Charles Francis.
Farmers and farming.
Free Soil party.
Liberty (personified).
Temple of Liberty.
Van Buren, Martin, later career.
FORMAT:
Portrait prints 1840-1850.
Lithographs 1840-1850.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph 3b50339 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b50339
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a08442 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a08442
CONTROL #: 2001700249
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