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Lot 271

Sale 5273 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 14, 2010 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Lithograph. Currier, N.; Ives, J.M., publishers. "Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up." New York, 1860. 13 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches (352 x 450 mm) - sheet size. Slightly dusty at edges, mounted along verso edges. Framed.
A political cartoon depicting the split in the Democratic Party during the Presidental race of 1860. Stalled on a train track is the Democratic platform wagon. It is about to be split by the locomotive "Equal Rights," pulling the Republic candidates Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin.
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