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title: 'Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Taylor and Fillmore), 1848'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-whig-banner-1848/
description: 'Campaign banner print in the form of a draped cloth banner: oval portraits of Taylor (in uniform) and Fillmore under an eagle on a globe and crossed…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Taylor and Fillmore), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/taylor-fillmore-whig-banner-1848.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/taylor-fillmore-whig-banner-1848.jpg)

# Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Taylor and Fillmore), 1848

Campaign banner print in the form of a draped cloth banner: oval portraits of Taylor (in uniform) and Fillmore under an eagle on a globe and crossed flags, with scrolls reading 'The People's Choice for President & Vice President from 1849 to 1853' and 'Press Onward'. Tells: the claim of popular choice and forward momentum (bandwagon) and the eagle, flags and stars lent to the ticket (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
Z. TAYLOR.
M. FILLMORE.
[left scroll] THE PEOPLE'S / PRESIDENT & / FROM 1849
[right scroll] CHOICE FOR / VICE PRESIDENT / TO 1853.
[globe] AMERICA
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.
GRAND, NATIONAL, WHIG BANNER.
PRESS ONWARD.
587.
```

Scroll lines are given left scroll then right scroll; read together they run 'THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT FROM 1849 TO 1853.' Bracketed labels are not printed. The small copyright line is partly hard to read at this size. A handwritten library note ('270.' and the deposit line) is not part of the printed text.

[← Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-peoples-candidate-1848/) [Free Soil Candidates for President and Vice-President (Kellogg and Comstock), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-buren-adams-free-soil-candidates-1848/)

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