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title: Campaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bell-everett-flag-banner-howard-1860/
description: Large campaign banner printed as a 33-star American flag on cloth, with an oval bust of Bell in the blue canton and the ticket lettered across the stripes.
section: Collection
---

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[![Campaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bell-everett-flag-banner-howard-1860.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bell-everett-flag-banner-howard-1860.jpg)

# Campaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)

Large campaign banner printed as a 33-star American flag on cloth, with an oval bust of Bell in the blue canton and the ticket lettered across the stripes. Tell for transfer: the national flag is the carrier for one party ticket. Small printed copy-text and its mirror-image show-through sit on the canton and stripes.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
For President
JOHN BELL.
For Vice President
EDWARD EVERETT.
An American Flag with a Portrait of John Bell encircled by
33 Stars in a blue field, bearing the names of
[reversed show-through lines of small print on the canton and stripes, illegible]
```

Handwritten library notes on the left edge are not part of the object and are not transcribed. The small print appears twice, once reading normally below the canton and once as a mirror image showing through the cloth.

[← Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/queens-proclamation-to-the-people-of-india-1858/) ["The Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. For President, John Bell of Tennessee. For Vice President, Edward Everett of Massachusetts" (W. H. Rease, 1860) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bell-everett-rease-union-constitution-1860/)

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