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Lot 428
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[POLITICS]. Discussion. The Citizens of Venango County are invited to attend without distinction of party...the leading principles, professions, and practices of the two prominent political parties of the Country.
[Venango County, Pennsylvania]: N.p., 12 August 1844.
Visible 13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. letterpress broadside (toned, some spotting, old creases); matted and framed to 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Rich'd. Irwin, Wm. Raymond, and J.G. M'Guire. Contemporary ink inscription notes: "N.B. Meetings to be opened at 1 o'clock P.M."
A Whig broadside issued during the hotly contested 1844 presidential election between Whig Henry Clay and Democratic James K. Polk. The broadside here advertises several public meetings "to discuss the leading principles, professions and practices of the two prominent political parties of the Country." Polk would win Pennsylvania in the 1844 election by just over 6,000 votes.
Visible 13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. letterpress broadside (toned, some spotting, old creases); matted and framed to 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Rich'd. Irwin, Wm. Raymond, and J.G. M'Guire. Contemporary ink inscription notes: "N.B. Meetings to be opened at 1 o'clock P.M."
A Whig broadside issued during the hotly contested 1844 presidential election between Whig Henry Clay and Democratic James K. Polk. The broadside here advertises several public meetings "to discuss the leading principles, professions and practices of the two prominent political parties of the Country." Polk would win Pennsylvania in the 1844 election by just over 6,000 votes.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents