Bryan-Sewall campaign buttons, badges and card
Museum mount of Democratic 1896 campaign pieces (labelled '74 1896 Dem. Bryan & Sewall'): buttons reading '16 bread to 1 butter', '16 to 1', 'The Silver Juggernaut', 'Free Silver' with a beetle and 'We are the people'; a brass badge with the two portraits; and a printed card captioned 'The Enthroned Hog. Shall the People Rule? William Jennings Bryan', showing Bryan facing a crowned, overfed figure on a throne.
- Date
- 1896
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Unrecorded makers (Bryan-Sewall campaign merchandise)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Object
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1896 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Cornell University Library via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain by age (object of c.1896); Cornell holding records no known copyright restrictions
Cornell University Library, Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, via Wikimedia Commons (Flickr Commons)
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