Election Poster, 1864
date: label: date made
content: 1864
label: associated date
content: November 8, 1864
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Lincoln, Abraham
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Johnson, Andrew
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Pendleton, George Hunt
label: depicted (sitter)
content: McClellan, George B.
notes: label: Description
content: This 1864 election poster shows portraits of the candidates for president and vice president, their parties’ platforms, and the candidates’ letters accepting their parties’ nominations.
label: Description
content: Lincoln had good reason to doubt his chances for reelection. No president since Andrew Jackson in 1832 had won a second term.
label: Description
content: The Democratic Party nominated Gen. George McClellan, whom Lincoln had removed from command. McClellan ran on an anti-Lincoln and anti-Emancipation Proclamation platform and left open the possibility of a negotiated peace with the South.
label: Description
content: As the election approached, Union triumphs on the battlefield helped propel Lincoln to victory. He declared the election results a mandate to press on for an unconditional victory and a constitutional amendment to end slavery.
label: Description
content: Gift of Ralph E. Becker, 1974
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: depicted
content: United States
topic: label: general subject association
content: Presidential Candidates
label: general subject association
content: Elections
label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 1864
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
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content: Princeton Posters
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
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.227739.1864.F07
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1864.F07
label: accession number
content: 274861
objectType: label: Object Name
content: broadside
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white; pink; blue with black type (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/4 in x 28 1/2 in; 97.155 cm x 72.39 cm