The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, T

The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, The Galena Tanner. For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, The Natick shoemaker. Print shows a Republican campaign banner designed to appeal to the labor vote by invoking the working class origins of candidates Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson. Grant wears a tanner's apron and jackboots and holds a shield decorated with stars and stripes. He is identified as The Galena Tanner. (See The Great American Tanner, no. 1868-11.) Henry Wilson, who holds a hammer, is identified as The Natick Shoemaker. (He began his career as a shoemaker in Natick, Massachusetts.) Grant stands near the door to a tannery, and Wilson stands before a shoemaker's bench. Date c1872. The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, The Galena Tanner. For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, The Natick shoemaker. Print shows a Republican campaign banner designed to appeal to the labor vote by invoking the working class origins of candidates Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson. Grant wears a tanner's apron and jackboots and holds a shield decorated with stars and stripes. He is identified as The Galena Tanner. (See The Great American Tanner, no. 1868-11.) Henry Wilson, who holds a hammer, is identified as The Natick Shoemaker. (He began his career as a shoemaker in Natick, Massachusetts.) Grant stands near the door to a tannery, and Wilson stands before a shoemaker's bench. Date c1872

Appeal C1872 Candidates Galena Identified Invoking Jackboots Origins Shoemaker Tanner Tannery Ulysses

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