Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of Commerce, which is seated at the far right end of a table which he shares with a southern planter (far left) and a New York City Tammany Democrat. Commerce has been strangled by the Specie Circular, an extremely unpopular order issued by the Jackson administration in December 1836, requiring collectors of public revenues to accept only gold or silver (i.e., "specie") in payment for public lands. The ghost displays a sheaf of papers, including one marked "Repeal of the Specie Circular," and notices of bank failures in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New York. Van Buren recoils at the sight of the specter, exclaiming, "Never shake thy gory locks at me, thou can'st not say I did it." Jackson, in a bonnet and dress made of bunting, turns away saying, "Never mind him gentlemen, the creature's scared, and has some conscience left; but by the Eternal we must shake that out of him." Planter (a note reading "Cotton Planters Specie in "Purse." Alabama" protrudes from his pocket): "No credit. Huzza!!" Tammany Irishman (raising a glass): "Down with the Bank!!"|Printed & pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt Street, N. York.|Signed with monogram: C (Edward Williams Clay).|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Century, p. 48.|Davison, no. 92.|Hess and Kaplan, p. 202.|Weitenkampf, p. 49.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-7.

Poster showing Uncle Sam directing a man to the Army Recruiting Office. Courtesy New York American. Recruiting series no. 6. No. 3-6993.

Campaign badge produced for the New England Whig Convention in Boston, September 10-11, 1840. An aureole of light surrounds an oval bust portrait of Harrison, ringed by medallions of the arms of the states of (clockwise from upper left) Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. An American eagle, holding arrows, perches on the Vermont seal at top, and the names of Harrison's military triumphs--Ft. Meigs, Thames, and Tippecanoe--appear behind.|Probably published in Boston.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Fischer & Sullivan, no. WHH-14.|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-22.

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A condemnation of a Van Buren administration plan, put forward by Secretary of War Joel Poinsett, to reform the militia system through creation of a reserve force under regular army officers. The idea was attacked by Whigs as a threat to personal liberty and as a dangerous step toward military despotism. Sarony here reflects this view, and also makes mocking reference to the military's recent, controversial use of bloodhounds in the Seminole Wars in Florida. Several soldiers, holding muskets with fixed bayonets and wearing helmets decorated with skull and crossbones, seize two civilians. One soldier, collaring the man, says, "Come along here you tarnal varmint you neednt think you can talk politics as you use to could, when the presidents what dident Know nothin . . . used to take that old stinking sheepskin instrument called the constitution for their guide." Second soldier: "The bayonet is the instrument what we use old boy." A bystander: "He dont belong to our party no how." Another civilian reacts to the scene, asking: "Is this America - with all her boasted rights & privileges that a man cannot in the open air speak his sentiments: where is the constitution - the charter of our-" Another soldier, seizing him: "Stop, stop sir; you talk of the constitution? its all humbug & federalism. I'll teach you who his excellency the president is: he's the government to deal with I reckon." In the background a troop of bloodhounds receive instruction from a drill sergeant. A barracks and other rows of drilling soldiers can be seen in the distance.|Entered . . . 1840 by H.R. Robinson.|H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y.|Signed: N. Sarony.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 62.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-3.

Democratic efforts to reelect Martin Van Buren are portrayed as hopeless in the face of broad popular support for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. Here one of Harrison's campaign emblems, a log cabin, is a trap imprisoning the incumbent. The cabin's timbers are labeled with names of twenty states and its roof with "Maine." Its chimney is a cider barrel (another Harrison campaign symbol) on which sits an eagle. Jackson tries to lift the cabin with a "Hickory" lever braced against a cotton bale "New-Orleans." This refers to the Democratic attempts to exploit the personal popularity of the "hero of New Orleans" in the western United States. To Jackson's frustration the cabin is wedged tightly against an embankment of "Clay"--Henry Clay being the Whig's drawing card for the West. Van Buren, pointing to the mound of "Clay," says, "Why General it is of no use trying, there is no hope in the "North" and "East" and don't you see the West end is all chinked up with "Clay," except one small corner where Benton sits . . . while Calhoun has nullified himself and me at the South. I have made up my mind to go to Kinderhook as soon as I get specie enough in the Sub Treasury to pay me my salary and would advise you to go to the "Deserts of Arabia . . ." ""Jackson admonishes him, "Why Matty my boy! What have you been about to let those d---d British Whigs get you in such a fix . . ." The print is signed "Boneyshanks," more than likely a pseudonym for Napoleon Sarony. The lithographer employs the distinctive broad crayon work found in signed Sarony work such as "The New Era or the Effects of a Standing Army" (no. 1840-3).|Entered . . . 1840 by H.R. Robinson.|Printed & published by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. Y.N. [sic] & Pennsa Avenue Washington D.C.|Signed: Boneyshanks (probably Napoleon Sarony).|The print was registered for copyright on September 21, 1840. |Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 67.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-43.

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New Jersey Dept. of Health poster showing soldiers rushing into battle and a woman holding an infant, a child standing next to her, and the faces of infants drawn in the background. Copyright by Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.

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A portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mails found there in July 1835. Mail sacks are handed through a forced window of the ransacked post office, torn open and bundles of newspapers such as "The Liberator," the Boston "Atlas" and "Commercial Gazette" removed and strewn about. At left, in an open square before a church, a crowd surrounds a bonfire. A sign reading "$20,000 Reward for Tappan" hangs on the wall of the post office, referring to the bounty placed by the city of New Orleans on the head of Arthur Tappan, founder and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society.|The Library's impression of "New Method of Assorting the Mail" was printed on the same sheet as another abolitionist print, "Southern Ideas of Liberty" (no. 1835-3), and may have been part of a series with that title.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 38.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1835-2.

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Text continues: Millions of your fellow countrymen have volunteered their services. Play your part in this great world battle for freedom and let the State decide what that part shall be. Poster is text only. Poster no. 141. Title from item.

Title appears as it is written on the item.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Poster showing soldiers on a dock awaiting transport, as a large ocean liner sets out to sea, and airplanes soar above. No. 3852-R-X-J-Q-9-7-17. Victor "His master's voice" trademark appears at lower left.

Poster showing an ambulance and soldiers in silhouette, with a green tree in the foreground. May 20th to 27th, admission 50c. Poster has many pieces missing from edges.

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Apply: 34 East 23d St., N.Y. - 115 Flatbush Ave., B'klyn. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

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Poster showing books pouring out of the Adriance Memorial Library, flanked by a soldier and a sailor saluting.

Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which blind men perform mechanical tasks in workshops. Poster captions: A tin cutter ; A fountain pen maker ; By careful placement work, many disabled men can be assured of profitable employment. These two cripples were placed at good jobs, without preliminary training, by the employment bureau of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.