Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison Scales, 1888
notes: label: Description
content: These scales allowed Americans to weigh their choices in the 1888 presidential race. Bisque figurines depict incumbent president Grover Cleveland and his Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, who ultimately won the 1888 election. In reality, Grover Cleveland was an enormous man, jokingly called “Uncle Jumbo” and weighed nearly twice what Benjamin Harrison did, so the scales would have been quite unbalanced.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0200.101
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gimmick
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 18.415 cm