--- title: 'The Presidents of the United States: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for 12th President (Currier), 1848' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-presidents-portrait-banner-1848/ description: 'Banner print: Cass in a laurel oval at the centre, ringed by eleven oval portraits of the earlier presidents with dates, under an eagle on a globe and…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The Presidents of the United States: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for 12th President (Currier), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cass-presidents-portrait-banner-1848.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cass-presidents-portrait-banner-1848.jpg) # The Presidents of the United States: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for 12th President (Currier), 1848 Banner print: Cass in a laurel oval at the centre, ringed by eleven oval portraits of the earlier presidents with dates, under an eagle on a globe and crossed flags and a ribbon reading 'The Presidents of the United States'. The tell is the placing of Cass among Washington to Polk, lending their standing to the candidate. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1789 to 1797. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1797 to 1801. JOHN ADAMS. 1801 to 1809. THOS. JEFFERSON. 1809 to 1817. JAMES MADISON. 1817 to 1825. JAMES MONROE. 1825 to 1829. JOHN Q. ADAMS. 1829 to 1837. ANDREW JACKSON. 1837 to 1841. MARTIN V. BUREN. April 4th 1841 to 1845. JOHN TYLER. 1845 to 1849. JAMES K. POLK. Inaugurated March 4th died Apr 4th 1841. WM. H. HARRISON. [globe] AMERICA LEWIS CASS, Democratic Candidate for 12th President. THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 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. LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER, 152 NASSAU ST. COR. OF SPRUCE N.Y. [illegible] ``` Portrait captions are listed from the top of the ring clockwise as read. Small date lines and the stock number are hard to read at this size. Handwritten library notes ('212.' and a deposit line dated June 6, 1848) are not part of the printed text. [← Free Soil Candidates for President and Vice-President (Kellogg and Comstock), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-buren-adams-free-soil-candidates-1848/) [Grand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-butler-democratic-banner-1848/) ## Using the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)