An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate

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The Republicans' purported support of Negro rights is taken to an extreme here. Editor Horace Greeley (left) and candidate Abraham Lincoln (resting his elbow on a rail at right) stand on either side of a short black man holding a spear. The latter is the deformed African man recently featured at P.T. Barnum's Museum on Broadway as the "What-is-it."(A poster for this attraction appears on the wall behind.) Greeley says, "Gentlemen allow me to introduce to you, this illustrious individual in whom you will find combined, all the graces, and virtues of Black Republicanism, and whom we propose to run as our next Candidate for the Presidency." Lincoln muses, "How fortunate! that this intellectual and noble creature should have been discovered just at this time, to prove to the world the superiority of the Colored over the Anglo Saxon race, he will be a worthy successor to carry out the policy which I shall inaugurate." The black man wonders, "What, can dey be?" Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate
Contributor(s)
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Date Issued
1860
Language
English
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0053
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
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Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
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Record Origin
Converted from Dublin Core to MODS during migration from CONTENTdm to Islandora
Currier & Ives. (1860). An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/heir-throne-or-next-republican-candidate
Currier & Ives. 1860. “An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/heir-throne-or-next-republican-candidate.
Currier & Ives. An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate. 1860, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/heir-throne-or-next-republican-candidate.