"HARRISON AND REFORM" LOG CABIN & HARD CIDER BARREL 1840 CAMPAIGN AMERICAN FLAG.

"HARRISON AND REFORM" LOG CABIN & HARD CIDER BARREL 1840 CAMPAIGN AMERICAN FLAG. (image 1/[null, null])
"HARRISON AND REFORM" LOG CABIN & HARD CIDER BARREL 1840 CAMPAIGN AMERICAN FLAG. (image 2/[null, null])
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During the 1840 campaign Harrison was 67 years old, the oldest Presidential candidate to date at a time when life expectancy was roughly 40 years. His opponent Martin Van Buren suggested he was better suited to sipping hard cider outside a log cabin and with that statement one of the most effective campaign devices in American history was born. The Harrison campaign ran with the hard cider & log cabin motif painting their candidate as a man of the people while portraying Van Buren as an out of touch aristocrat who would rather drink champagne. The popularity of the design is reflected in the litany of surviving artifacts from lapel brooches, canes, tokens, ribbons, and textiles proudly displaying the log cabin & hard cider barrel. The campaign of 1840 was a watershed moment in the history of Presidential campaign material culture representing the first major widespread use of trinkets for the many parades, demonstrations and gatherings focused mostly on the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. This flag is among the most impressive survivors utilizing the device that was so critical to the progress of American political campaigning. 22x28". Silk. Unlisted in Threads of History. A canton of 13 stars arranged as a wreath of 12 stars encircling a large star at center, a pattern known as the "3rd Maryland" a reference to the regiment read more
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