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- GLC#
- GLC02132.02-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1860
- Author/Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Title
- [Color print depicting Hannibal Hamlin]
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 lithograph : col. Height: 45.4 cm, Width: 34.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
A caption underneath this print describes Hamlin as the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. A red drapery serves as a backdrop for this oval-shaped print. Hamlin served as a U.S. congressman from Maine (1843-1846), U.S. senator (1847-1860 and 1869-1880) and as vice president of the United States (1861-1865). Published by Currier & Ives. Note along the bottom of the image reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y."
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