Jefferson Banner
date: label: Date made
content: 1800
label: associated date
content: 1800
name: label: associated person
content: Jefferson, Thomas
label: associated person
content: Adams, John
notes: label: Description
content: This cloth banner celebrates the electoral victory of Thomas Jefferson over John Adams in the presidential election of 1800. The banner is believed to be one of the earliest surviving textiles carrying partisan imagery, created at the dawn of the first American party system in which power passed from Federalists to Jeffersonian Republicans. Its imagery celebrates Jefferson's electoral victory, while denigrating Adams, his opponent. The banner pictures Jefferson's likeness below an eagle with a streamer in its beak that proclaims, "T. Jefferson President of the United States of America / John Adams is no more."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Politics
label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 1800
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1800.C01
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1800.C01
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 37 in; 76.2 cm x 93.98 cm