Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
Published by James Baillie, 87th St. near 3rd Avenue N.Y. and Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848, by J. Baillie, in the Clerk's Office of the Distt. Court, of the Southn. Distt. of N.Y.
Subject (Topic):
Aging, Life cycle, Human, Infants, Mothers, Boys, Toys, Men, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Flags, Top hats, Staffs (Sticks)., Older people, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Animals
