American History: Premier Auction

Lot of 2, both 17.75 x 27 in. printed cotton flags, archivally framed to 23 x 33 in. Cantons with portraits of the running mates surrounded by 38 stars, and "Patented September 4, 1883" in one of the white stripes. Portraits derived from engravings published by the Atlantic Publishing Company. Documented in The Stars and Stripes: Fabric of the American Spirit, J. Richard Pierce, LLC, 2005 (p. 52), and Collins' Threads of History (plates 525 & 526).

Grover Cleveland chose Hendricks, who had been Samuel Tilden's running mate in the contested 1876 election, as his running mate in 1884, and the two defeated James Blaine and John Logan to win that election. Vice President Hendricks died in November 1885 after serving only nine months in office, and Cleveland chose Allen Thurman as his running mate in 1888 but lost to Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton, then won the 1892 election with Adlai Stevenson as his running mate.