Union Labor Party
Black-and-white lithograph for the Union Labor ticket. Oval portraits of Alson J. Streeter of Illinois and Charles E. Cunningham of Arkansas flank figures of Liberty and Justice on a globe lettered "Union for ever", under a flag banner reading "The product of labor belongs to the producer" and a quotation from Abraham Lincoln; a farmer and a smith stand at the sides. The Lincoln quotation is a vouch from a named man (testimonial), and the globe, flag and allegorical figures lend symbolic weight (transfer).
- Date
- August 31, 1888
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Kurz & Allison, Chicago (art publishers)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1888 US Election
- Techniques
- TestimonialTransfer
- 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
UNION LABOR PARTY. / THE PRODUCT OF LABOR BELONGS TO THE PRODUCER. / A Government of the People, by the People, and for the People, shall not perish from the Earth. A. LINCOLN. / FOR PRESIDENT ALSON J. STREETER OF ILLINOIS / FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHAS. E. CUNINGHAM OF ARKANSAS / UNION FOR EVER / PACIFIC. ATLANTIC. / COPYRIGHTED 1888 BY KURZ & ALLISON, ART PUBLISHERS, 76 & 78 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO.
Spelling "Cuningham" is as printed.
