Protection to home industry 1888
Colour lithograph for the Republican ticket. Oval portraits of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton sit under an eagle and a flag, with a third portrait of William Henry Harrison labelled "The Log Cabin 1840" above a log cabin; two raccoons flank a scroll reading "No free trade for us. The same old coon." The log cabin and the 1840 portrait borrow the earlier Harrison campaign for the grandson (transfer), and the cabin and raccoons stage a homespun frontier identity (plain-folks).
- Date
- August 18, 1888
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Joseph A. Burrows, Washington, D.C. (copyright claimant); signed on the stone "CK. 88"
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1888 US Election
- Techniques
- TransferPlain folks
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain by age (published 1888); LOC rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Text on the object
PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRY 1888 / FOR PRESIDENT BEN. HARRISON / FOR VICE PRESIDENT L. P. MORTON / THE LOG CABIN 1840 / W. H. HARRISON / No FREE TRADE FOR US. / The Same Old Coon. / Copyrighted by Joseph A. Burrows, Washington, D.C. / CK. 88
Seals in the upper corners and archival pencil marks are omitted.
