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TITLE:Harrison, union, liberty, and independence / designed, written & published by B.O. Tyler, Albany, N.Y.

CALL NUMBER:PGA - Tyler--Harrison union... (D size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-pga-02919 (digital file from original print)
LC-USZ62-91371 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY:A large Whig campaign broadside, very similar to "Westward the March of Empire" (no. 1840-31) with the same lengthy text, here entitled "Epitome of the life of William Henry Harrison ..." Framing the text are two pairs of Ionic columns supporting a pediment, on which rests an eagle holding olive branches and arrows in his talons and a streamer reading "Harrison Union Liberty and Independence" in his beak. Behind the eagle a rising sun is partially visible. Below is a bust portrait of Harrison, after Albert Gallatin Hoit''s 1840 painting. The columns rest on bases, with pictures of two Harrison victories, the battles of Tippecanoe (left) and the Thames (right). On the left pedestal stands an Indian with a tomahawk and rifle; on the right is a frontier hunter in buckskins and coonskin hat, holding a rifle.

MEDIUM:1 print on wove paper : lithograph with letterpress ; image 63 x 50 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[Albany, N.Y. : Tyler], c1840.

CREATOR:

Tyler, Benjamin Owen, b. 1789.

NOTES:

Title from print.

"Entered ... 1840 by B. O. Tyler ..."

The Library''s impression of the print was received in the State Department as a copyright registration on August 2, 1840, suggesting that it was deposited for copyright shortly before. It may have been deposited at the same time as "Westward the March of Empire Takes Its Flight" (also published by B.O. Tyler), which was deposited for copyright on July 28. DLC

Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-30.

TOPICS:

American Indians.
Eagle (prominently featured).
Harrison, William Henry.
Thames, Battle of the, Ont., 1813.
Tippecanoe, Battle of, Ind., 1811.
War of 1812.

FORMAT:

Broadsides 1840.
Lithographs 1840.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original print) pga 02919
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b37714

CONTROL #:2003690757





Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3b30000-3b37000-3b37700-3b37714


LOC 1116572


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