American Historical Ephemera and Photography

WILSON, J.N., photographer. Stereoview of an outdoor gathering featuring a large jugate campaign banner for Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. Savannah, GA: Wilson, [1868] (heavy soiling, some wear mount edges and corners). Ink inscription on verso identifies the view as "No. 56, Election Scene 3d. Nov. 1868." -- 2 cabinet card portraits of Horace Greely, including one by Mathew Brady. -- Cabinet card portrait of Ulysses S. Grant (heavy toning, surface soil). -- Together, 4 photographs.

[With:] Republican ticket featuring portraits of Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson along with the names of nominees for presidential electors. 4 1/4 x 8 in. printed ticket (discoloration, wear to edges). -- Advertising cartoon from Puck depicting caricatures of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Benjamin Butler enjoying Capadura cigars. 5 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. printed cartoon with advertisement for Brooklyn's "'Old Times' Segar Store No. 2" on reverse. -- Tobacco label for Genuine Durham Tobacco, featuring portrait of Samuel J. Tilden when bottom portion is folded up and a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant when bottom portion is unfolded. Text above and below portrait beckons "True Born Democrats" to "Gaze On" the face of Tilden, and "All You Good Republicans" to "behold the visage" of Grant. New York: Donaldson Brothers, ca 1870s. 3 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. printed label (creased, with light soiling and wear to edges). -- 14 illustrated covers featuring likenesses of Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Schuyler Colfax, Horatio Seymour, and Frank P. Blair, 6 of which are postally used. -- And 11 other printed items including Vanity Fair and Harper's Weekly illustrations, printed invitations, advertisements, and more. -- Together, 28 printed materials relating to candidates and campaigns from the 1868 and 1872 presidential elections.

[Also with:] "Speech of the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, Delivered Before The Republican Mass Meeting, at Cooper Institute, September 25, 1872." New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1872. 23pp, 5 3/8 x 8 in. (disbound). -- "Speeches of General U.S. Grant, Republican Candidate for Eighteenth President of the United States, Being Extracts from Speeches, Letters, Orders, Military and State Papers." Washington, D.C.: Union Republican Congressional Executive Committee, Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1868. 16pp, 6 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (toning, chipping to page edges). -- "The Liberal Republican Movement. The Address of the Cincinnati Convention, the Platform, Mr. Greeley's Letter of Acceptance, Speech of Mr. Schurz at Cincinnati, Letter of Mr. Fenton to the Great New York Mass Meeting." 7pp, 6 x 9 1/4 in. (dampstains, chipping to page edges). N.p., [1872]. -- Together, 3 pamphlets.