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The Presidential Elections: 1860 - 1912

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1856 - COL. FREMONT PLANTING THE AMERICAN STANDARD ON THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

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HarpWeek is pleased to provide Internet access to one of the most important collections of American political prints. The Library of Congress collection has been catalogued and extensively annotated by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.  This catalog, which HarpWeek has the privilege of bringing to the public in electronic format, is an unmatched source of information on American political prints.
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Warning
Website visitors should be warned that several of the words, descriptions, and images in these 19th-century caricatures are considered racially offensive by today’s standards. The materials are presented in order to give an accurate historical picture of American political prints in the 19th century. 
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