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title: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for President (Currier), 1848
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-butler-democratic-candidates-1848/
description: 'Horizontal Currier print: oval bust portraits of Cass and Butler (in uniform) in oak-leaf wreaths, joined at the centre beneath a small eagle perched on…'
section: Collection
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# Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for President (Currier), 1848

Horizontal Currier print: oval bust portraits of Cass and Butler (in uniform) in oak-leaf wreaths, joined at the centre beneath a small eagle perched on a globe, each topped by a red X-shaped ribbon. Captions name them Democratic candidates for President and Vice President; the tell is the eagle and wreaths used as national symbols around the ticket.

## Text on the object

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

```
LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. 152 NASSAU ST. COR. OF SPRUCE N.Y.
[globe] AMERI[illegible]
LEWIS CASS,
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
WM. O. BUTLER,
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
392.
```

Handwritten library notes ('Deposited in the Clerk's Office Southern District New York August 12 1848' and '396.') are not part of the printed text.

[← Zachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-presidents-portrait-banner-1848/) ['Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty...' (Free Soil cartoon, Currier), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-buren-washburn-altar-of-liberty-1848/)

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