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.
- Date
- 1860
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- H. C. Howard, Philadelphia (printer), for the Constitutional Union Bell-Everett ticket
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Buchanan Administration
- Leader
- James Buchanan
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1860 US Election
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (Popular Graphic Arts), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: published 1860, US. LOC reuse note: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Campaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)
Text on the object
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.
