Log Cabin Lamp, 1876
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: The Whig campaign of 1840 against incumbent President Martin Van Buren established a pattern of predetermined imagery, from which later campaigns have seldom deviated. The Whigs adopted the symbols of the log cabin and hard cider to promote the candidacy of General William Henry Harrison. An outpouring of objects with designs of log cabins, such as this glass lamp from 1876, soon followed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: American Centennial
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Ralph E Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1876.I02
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1876.I2
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 5 in; 8.255 cm x 12.7 cm