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TITLE: Know Nothing Polka dedicated to everybody by nobody
CALL NUMBER: M1.A13 K (Case) c-MUSIC
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-91859 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: A sheet music cover illustrated with the American nativist device of an eye in an aureole of light. The watchful eye (a commonplace in Masonic iconography) here symbolizes the Know Nothings' vigilance against "foreign influence" in American politics and government. For an earlier instance of the nativist use of this motif see the certificate of the Order of United Americans (no. 1848-1).
MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 27 x 20 cm. (plate)
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1854.
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NOTES:
Entered . . . 1854 by J. Couenhoven.
Philadelphia James Couenhoven 162 Chesnut St.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1854-1.
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Engravings 1850-1860.
Sheet music covers 1850-1860.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Music Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b38195 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b38195
CONTROL #: 2008661569
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