Grand Democratic Free Soil Banner (Currier, Van Buren and Adams), 1848
Black-and-white banner print: roundel portraits of Van Buren and Adams below an eagle with olive branches and arrows on a domed 'Temple of Liberty', flanked by flags, with a farm vignette of a man ploughing between two cornucopias. Tells: the slogan 'Free Soil.-Free Labor.-Free Speech.' (virtue words as the message) and the eagle, flags and temple lent to the ticket (transfer).
- Date
- September 1, 1848
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- N. Currier, New York (lithographer-publisher), for the Free Soil ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Polk Administration
- Leader
- James K. Polk
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1848 US Election
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: published 1848, US; LOC rights statement: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Text on the object
FREE SOIL.-FREE LABOR.-FREE SPEECH. TEMPLE OF LIBERTY MARTIN VAN BUREN. CHARLES F. ADAMS. 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 DEMOCRATIC FREE SOIL BANNER. From Daguerreotypes by Plumbe. 616.
The small imprint and stock-number lines are hard to read at this size.
