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title: Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-peoples-candidate-1848/
description: 'Horizontal Currier campaign print: two oval bust portraits in laurel wreaths against a stone wall with three stars, Taylor in military uniform and…'
section: Collection
---

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# Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848

Horizontal Currier campaign print: two oval bust portraits in laurel wreaths against a stone wall with three stars, Taylor in military uniform and Fillmore in a frock coat. The captions 'People's Candidate for President' and 'Whig Candidate for Vice President' label them; Tells: the label 'People's Candidate' for the general, set against 'Whig Candidate' for Fillmore, casts him as the ordinary voters' own choice (plain-folks) and is a virtue label with no stated claim behind it (glittering generalities). The print makes no claim of momentum or majority.

## 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.
ZACHARY TAYLOR,
PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
MILLARD FILLMORE,
WHIG CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
393.
```

Handwritten library notes ('Deposited in the Clerk's Office Southern District of New York August 12 1848' and '388.') are not part of the printed text. The imprint line is small and partly hard to read.

[← Hurban, Hodzsa es Stur szemelyes leirasuk (wanted notice for the Slovak uprising leaders, Hungarian, German and Slovak)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hurban-hodzsa-stur-wanted-notice-beniczky-1848/) [Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Taylor and Fillmore), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-whig-banner-1848/)

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