1897

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Object

Title: McKinley-Roosevelt campaign button [no ribbon]

GLC08629

1850-1870 ca.

Currier & Ives

Header Record

Title: [Collection of seven Currier & Ives lithographs]

GLC08630

1884

Flower, Frank A., fl. 1884

Book

Title: History of the Republican Party [with 2 facsimile election tickets]

GLC08631

1864

Pamphlet

Title: The Lincoln catechism wherein the eccentricities & beauties of despotism are fully set forth. A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864.

A vitriolic racist attack on Lincoln in the form of a mock catechism. A list of sarcastic questions and answers which accuse Lincoln of tyranny and the Republicans of destroying the Constitution. Title page proclaims the pamphlet is "A guide to the presidential election of 1864." Questions and answers include "By Whom hath the Constitution been made obsolete? By Abraham Africanus the First." and "What is a President? A genral agent for negroes." States the first commandment of the Republicans is "Thou shalt have no other God but the negro." Includes comments about miscegenation and…

GLC08632

December 1864

Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

Printed document signed

Title: [Certification of Illinois electors for U.S. President and Vice President]

Signed by Yates as Governor of Illinois and countersigned by O.M. Hatch as Secretary of State. For the presidential election of 1864.

GLC08635

1860

Bell, John, 1797-1869

Object

Title: Political token: Ferrotype portrait of Bell and Edward Everett

GLC08641

30 December 1860

Cadwalader, George, ?-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sherman

Cadwalader, a Sacramento lawyer, discusses California politics with Sherman, a United State Senator from Ohio. Reports that the California presidential election will be held on the following day, with Lincoln holding a 134 count majority over Stephen A. Douglas. Referring to a different election, reports that James William Denver, a former United States Representative from California, "is the only person who can be elected." Discusses the postponement of an election in California in order to find a Republican associate for Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, a United States Representative from…

GLC08647

circa 1864

Object

Title: [Election of 1864 Abraham Lincoln campaign shield]

Heraldic gold shield with photograph of Abraham Lincoln in center. With loop at top for hanging.

GLC08684

1866

Clymer, Hiester, 1827-1884

Pamphlet

Title: Record of Hiester Clymer; and historical parallel betwen him and Major-General John W. Geary. Also, official returns of election on Constitutional Amendments allowing soldiers the right to vote.

Attempts to demonstrate that Clymer is a fit representative for the Democratic party in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. Notes that Clymer is "foremost in denunciation of the Government, and strenuous in his opposition to every measure calculated to suppress rebellion."

GLC08705

1864

Mason, & Co., fl. 1864

Pamphlet

Title: Lincoln campaign songster.

Title page states songster is for the use of clubs and contains all the most popular songs. Miniature book with woodcut of Lincoln on paper cover and printer's advertisements on back cover. Intended for the 1864 Presidential election. Advertisements on back cover have been slightly trimmed.

GLC08709

1835

Emmons, William, fl. 1835

Book

Title: Biography of Martin Van Buren, Vice President.... [election campaign biography]

Election campaign biography printed by Jacob Gideon.

GLC08607.02

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Broadside

Title: Think before you vote!

Union broadside to citizens of Michigan promoting Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for President and Vice President. Denounces Democratic candidate General George McClellan. Ends with, "If the Union and government is not maintained, the nation is disgraced before the Civilized World."

GLC08546

1864

Abott, Abott A., fl. 1864

Book

Title: The Life of Lincoln

Campaign biography printed by T.R. Dawley, Publisher for the Million. With adverts at the end.

GLC08581.01

1860

Scripps, J. L. (John Locke), 1818-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln

Printed by the Chicago Press and Tribune.

GLC08589

1860

Scripps, J. L. (John Locke), 1818-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln

Campaign biography for the 1860 presidential election. Printed by Horace Greeley & Co. New York edition, Tribune tracts no. 6.

GLC08590

3 December 1864

Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910

Newspaper

Title: The Presidential Election, Nov. 8 - Scene at the Polls in the Army of the Potomac - Soldiers Voting

Shows soldiers voting in the presidential election of 1864. A Union poster is hanging on the voting tent. Sketched by the artist Joseph Becker. Extracted from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, of 3 December 1864, page 172. Contains additional unrelated printing on verso.

GLC08593

1864

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street in New York. Depicts a very short and hostile General George McClellan and a very tall and confident Abraham Lincoln, both candidates in the 1864 presidential election, on the left side of the picture. McClellan says: "Uncle Abraham don't you think you had better call the old dog off now, I'm afraid he'll hurt those other dogs, if he catches hold of them." Lincoln responds: "Why little Mac that's the same pack of curs, that you chased you aboard of the Gunboat two years ago, they are pretty nearly used up now ... " They are looking at a…

GLC08594

1819-1840

Header Record

Title: Presidential campaign biographies [decimalized]

GLC08607

1840

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Book

Title: Life of Major General William Henry Harrison.... [election campaign biography]

Election campaign biography. Bound in green paper boards with glazed cloth spine. Frontispiece and three plates. Printed by Grugg and Elliot. (The only printing cited by Howes.) Howes H246, Miles 133.

GLC08607.01

17 June 1864

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. XXXIV, no. 25 (June 17, 1864)]

Prints articles on the British and Foreign anti-slavery society and a letter of Gerritt Smith to Elizabeth Cady Stanton about 1864 presidential election. Brief article praises the equalization of pay for African American [colored] soldiers. Covers the Baltimore, Maryland convention, the re-nomination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the other presidential nominations. Also includes articles on the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the Methodist Church and slavery, and Negro suffrage in Montana.

GLC08608

1864

Newspaper

Title: [1864 election newspaper clipping]

Headlines include, "Let the Eagle Scream!!!," "Great Union Victories," and "Make Way for Honest Old Abe, Our Next President."

GLC08609

26 May 1860

Harper & Brothers, 1833-1962

Newspaper

Title: Harper's weekly. [Vol. 4, no. 178 (May 26, 1860)]

Includes a front-page article on Lincoln, recently announced as the Republican presidential candidate. Accompanied by an engraving of Lincoln after a Mathew Brady photograph. Also: "The Woman in White," news regarding Congress, and reports on foreign affairs. Describes and illustrates President James Buchanan's reception of Japanese ambassadors.

GLC08621

1860

Object

Title: [Election of 1860 campaign token]

Republican election token from the 1860 presidential election with photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin on opposite sides. With hole punched at top.

GLC08627

1900

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Object

Title: McKinley-Roosevelt campaign button with ribbon by Whitehead & Hoag

GLC08628

1861-1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Civil War Union patriotic covers.

Includes one Stephen Douglas campaign cover. .1=S.A. Douglas Campaign cover; .2=Caricature patriotic (Virginia); .3=Penna. state design Magnus patriotic; .4=Constitution and laws (from 1859).

GLC08416