Collection Highlights
View of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
after 1883
1904.22
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
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Luce Center
Campaign kercheif of Harrison and Reid
Title
Campaign kercheif of Harrison and Reid
Object name
Kerchief
Date
1892
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 20 x 21 in. ( 50.8 x 53.3 cm )
Description
Cotton copper-engraved campaign kerchief with portraits of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid in medallions with American bald eagle armorials above and below; printed in sepia and light-blue ink on a white ground; decorative border.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
1944.216
Marks
printed: below portraits: "BENJAMIN HARRISON/ REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT/ WHITELAW REID/ REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT"
printed: on armorials: "THE * UNION * AND * THE/ CONSTITUTION * FOREVER"
Gallery Label
Benjamin Harrison of Indiana was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison. He was elected president in 1888, defeating Grover Cleveland, but was defeated by Cleveland in 1892. Whitelaw Reid of New York, the editor of the "New York Tribune," and U.S. Minister to France, was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice-President in 1892.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
