Detail of Abraham Lincoln flag

Exhibition Gallery Guide: Your Next President . . . !

    

Your Next President . . . ! The Campaign Art of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman

Rare campaign flags and patriotic textiles from the Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman illustrated how presidential campaigning developed in the nineteenth century. Additional pieces from the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection broadened the story.

 

 

 

 

 
Abraham Lincoln campaign banner

Abraham Lincoln campaign banner, United States, 1860. Printed cotton and flax blend. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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William Henry Harrison and Reform campaign flag

William Henry Harrison and Reform campaign flag, United States 1840. Printed silk. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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13-Star William Henry Harrison campaign flag

13-Star William Henry Harrison campaign flag, United States, 1840. Printed silk. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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13-Star Henry Clay campaign flag

13-Star Henry Clay campaign flag, United States, 1844. Printed silk. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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27-Star James K. Polk campaign flag

27-Star James K. Polk campaign flag, United States, 1844. Printed cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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Abraham Lincoln campaign flag

Abraham Lincoln campaign flag, H.C. Howard of Philadelphia, 1860. Printed cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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35-Star “free” Abraham Lincoln campaign flag

35-Star “Free” Abraham Lincoln campaign flag, United States, 1864. Printed cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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Benjamin Harrison campaign bandanna

Benjamin Harrison campaign bandanna, Cocheco Manufacturing Company, Dover, New Hampshire, 1888. Printed cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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Theodore Roosevelt campaign kerchief

Theodore Roosevelt campaign kerchief, United States, 1912. Printed silk. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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Theodore Roosevelt pillow cover

Theodore Roosevelt pillow cover, Campbell, Metzger, and Jacobsen, New York, 1906. Print on heavy cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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George Washington pillow cover

George Washington pillow cover, United States, 1889. Printed heavy cotton. Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman. 

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The Inauguration of President Garfield

The Inauguration of President Garfield—View of the Grand Military and Civic Procession on Pennsylvania Avenue Looking from the Dome of the Capitol. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 19, 1881. Colored woodcut. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum. 

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Preparing for the Inauguration

Preparing for the Inauguration—Work House Prisoners Clearing East Capitol Street. C. Upham for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 2, 1889. Colored woodcut. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum. 

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The Presidential Party Passing through the Grand Arch

The Presidential Party Passing Through the Grand Arch, en Route to the White House, After the Inauguration. A. Arthur for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 19, 1881. Woodcut. Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum.

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