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title: The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/working-mans-banner-grant-1872/
description: Republican campaign banner published by Currier & Ives that presents Grant as 'The Galena Tanner' in a tanner's apron and Henry Wilson as 'The Natick…
section: Collection
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[![The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/working-mans-banner-grant-1872.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/working-mans-banner-grant-1872.jpg)

# The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'

Republican campaign banner published by Currier & Ives that presents Grant as 'The Galena Tanner' in a tanner's apron and Henry Wilson as 'The Natick Shoemaker' with a hammer, each before the trade named.

[← Splitting the party - the entering wedge](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/splitting-the-party-1872/) [Here! (New Hampshire heard from) The true Military Ring →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nast-military-ring-march-1872/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (France · 1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- ['This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-north-bend-log-cabin-sinclair-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Plain folks, Transfer)
- [Treeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/treeing-coons-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Plain folks)
- [Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-peoples-candidate-1848/) (United States · 1848 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- ['Little Mac.' (from the Democratic presidential campaign songster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/little-mac-song-sheet-feeks-1864/) (United States · 1864 · Bandwagon, Plain folks)
- [The peoples' choice, H. Greeley G. Brown](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-choice-greeley-brown-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Bandwagon, Plain folks)
- [The Chappaqua farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chappaqua-farmer-1872/) (United States · Jul 1872 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- [Roll along, roll along, shout the campaign battle song](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roll-along-campaign-song-hayes-1876/) (United States · 1876 · Plain folks, Transfer, Name-calling). Content note: 1876 Hayes campaign songsheet cover with a period caricature of two Black youths.