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title: Zachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-presidents-portrait-banner-1848/
description: 'Banner print: Taylor in an oval at the centre, ringed by eleven oval portraits of the previous presidents, each with name and term dates, under a ribbon…'
section: Collection
---

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# Zachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848

Banner print: Taylor in an oval at the centre, ringed by eleven oval portraits of the previous presidents, each with name and term dates, under a ribbon reading 'The Presidents of the United States'. Tells: the ribbon 'People's choice for 12th President' (bandwagon) and the placing of Taylor among Washington to Polk (transfer of their standing).

## Text on the object

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

```
1789 to 1797.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
1797 to 1801.
JOHN ADAMS.
1801 to 1809.
THOS. JEFFERSON.
1809 to 1817.
JAMES MADISON.
1817 to 1825.
JAMES MONROE.
1825 to 1829.
JOHN Q. ADAMS.
1829 to 1837.
ANDREW JACKSON.
1837 to 1841.
MARTIN V. BUREN.
April 4th 1841 to 1845.
JOHN TYLER.
1845 to 1849.
JAMES K. POLK.
Inaugurated March 4th died Apr 4th 1841.
WM. H. HARRISON.
ZACHARY TAYLOR,
THE
People's choice for 12th President.
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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.
LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER, 152 NASSAU ST. COR. OF SPRUCE NEW YORK.
[illegible]
```

Portrait captions are listed from the top of the ring clockwise as read. Small date lines and the stock number are hard to read at this size. Handwritten library notes ('267.' and a deposit line dated June 23, 1848) are not part of the printed text.

[← Grand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-butler-democratic-banner-1848/) [Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for President (Currier), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-butler-democratic-candidates-1848/)

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