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.

Date: November 1844
Period: Pre-1914
Made by: Democratic Party ticket for Maryland electors (printer not stated on the object)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Document
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Tyler Administration
Leader: John Tyler
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Theme: Elections and party politics
Event: 1844 US Election
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (Rare Book and Special Collections Division holdings), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain: published 1844, US; LOC rights note: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. (item 2008661416)

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.