National Democratic banner of victory, 1868

National Democratic banner of victory, 1868. Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic presidential candidate Horatio Seymour and running mate Francis Preston Blair, Jr. of Missouri. Above the curiously overlapping portraits of the candidates is a globe, on which rests an American eagle holding a streamer in his beak. From behind the globe are rays of light and two American flags. Liberty, in a Phrygian cap, stands at left and Justice, holding her sword and scales, at right. Below the portraits are two medallions. One contains an image of two hands pushing a plough. The other contains an arm-and-hammer device, symbol of Labor. Date c1868

Beak C1868 Candidates Contains Curiously Horatio Mate Medallions Missouri Overlapping Phrygian Plough Pushing Rays Rests Scales Streamer

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