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title: 'Democratic ticket for Maryland electors: Polk and Dallas, 1844'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/polk-dallas-maryland-electors-ticket-1844/
description: Small printed ballot ticket headed by an American flag on a staff topped by a radiant liberty cap, naming Polk and Dallas and eight Maryland presidential…
section: Collection
---

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# Democratic ticket for Maryland electors: Polk and Dallas, 1844

Small printed ballot ticket headed by an American flag on a staff topped by a radiant liberty cap, naming Polk and Dallas and eight Maryland presidential electors. Tell: national and liberty symbols placed above the party ticket lend it their prestige (transfer). Photographed beside a ruler.

## Text on the object

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

```
[illegible lettering on the band of the cap]
For President:
JAMES K. POLK,
OF TENNESSEE.
For Vice President:
GEORGE M. DALLAS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.

For Electors of President & Vice-President of the United States.
William Frick.
Albert Constable.
James Murray.
Thomas Perry.
Edward Hammond.
Benjamin C. Presstman.
William A. Spencer.
James Lloyd Martin.
```

The ruler markings of the LOC scan are not part of the object. The small lettering on the cap band could not be read.

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