Presidential Campaigns: A Cartoon History

Title

Presidential Campaigns: A Cartoon History

Date

1789-1976

Collection Items

Expring: In Hopes Of Resurrection To Life Again

Paul Revere, engraving, 1774, reprinted from A History of American Graphic Humor, by William Murrell (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933) 27
Join or Die

Benjamin Franklin, 1754, Pennsylvania Gazette, reprinted from The Image of America in Caricature and Cartoon, by the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (Fort...
The Counter-Medely, being a Proper Answer to all the Dunces of the Medeley and their Abettors

Artist unknown, 1764, reprinted from A History of American Graphic Humor, by William Murrell (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933) 17.
A Peep into the Anti-Federalist Club

"A Peep into the Anti-Federalist Club," 1793. Reprinted with permission from the American Past. Courtesy of the Free Library of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Strain every nerve, our sinking cause to save

"Strain Every Nerve, our Sinking Cause to Save," "Remarks on the Jacobiniad," 1795, J. S. J. Gardiner, Boston, reprinted from A History of American...
The Providential Detection

"The Providential Detection," reprinted from The American Past. With permission from the Huntinton Library, San Marino, California
Anti-Jefferson caricature

Unknown title. From "Remarks on the Jacobiniad," 1795, J.S. J. Gardiner, Boston. Reprinted with permission from A History of American Graphic Humor.
Washington with Federal Constitution and Benjamin Franklin in chariot pulled by thirteen freemen, representing the original thirteen states

Unknown title. From Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, or Federal calendar for 1788. Reprinted with permission from A History of American Graphic Humor, 1788.
Washington triumphing over "French Republican cannibals and French Revolutionary sympathizers", with Jefferson trying to "stop de wheels of de government"

Unknown title. 1797, The Times, a Political Portrait, The New York Historical Society, reprinted from The American Presidency in Political Cartoons: 1776-1976.
Washington Receiving the Intelligence of his Election

Unknown title. 1836, reprinted from History of the United States: for the Use of Schools and Academies, by John Frost (Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle,...
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