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 his adoption of annexation as his own cause in the election. Whig candidate Henry Clay, astride a white horse, argues against annexation as proposed by Tyler and supported by Polk. Former President Andrew Jackson (Democratic Party), stands by a tree with a noose, inviting Polk to turn over Tyler so Jackson can "annex" him by the noose to the tree
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printed area measures 43.5 x 32.0 cm.
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
Subject: Illustrated letterhead with a view of Bowling Green Park, in New York City. The small enclosed park is seen to the right, with city buildings surrounding it.
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Dated 1850 to 1860 by the Library of Congress.
Publisher:
Charles Magnus
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State), New York, Bowling Green (New York, N.Y.), New York., and Bowling Green.
Subject: View of the Classical style Brooklyn City Hall, flying an American flag. Another Classical style building sits behind it, while people walk along the street and others ride on horseback. The scene is set within a simple ivy border
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 421: Partially hand-colored., Title from caption below image., and Construction on the city hall was completed in 1849.
Publisher:
Charles Magnus
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State), New York., Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York, and Brooklyn.
Subject (Name):
Brooklyn City Hall (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
Public buildings, Buildings, structures, etc, and Buildings
Portrays, imaginatively, an event in the Texas war of independence: the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to American leader Samuel Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto in late April 1836. Santa Anna (center) bows and offers his sword to Houston, saying, "I consent to remain your prisoner, most excellent sir!! Me no Alamo!!" Cos follows suit. Houston, clad in buckskins and holding a musket, says, "You are two bloody villains, and to treat you as you deserve, I ought to have you shot as an example! Remember the Alamo and Fannin!"
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published June, 1836 by the proprietor, H.R. Robinson, 48 Courtlandt Street, New York
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, United States, Mexico., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854., and Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, Campaign, Foreign relations, and Diplomatic relations
Two images of New York's East River are enclosed in a leafy scroll-like border. The upper image shows the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the river, with a large side-wheel steamboat in the middle of the river and numerous buildings crowded thickly on the Manhattan shore. The lower image shows a large number of sailboats, clippers, and one steamer in the river, with Brooklyn's built-up environs in the background
Alternative Title:
East River front
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 424: Partially hand-colored., Title from caption below image., and Date suggested by James Milgram. See Milgram, James W., "Illustrated letter stationery of New York City," in Postal history journal, no. 164, June 2016, page 29.
Publisher:
Charles Magnus, publisher
Subject (Geographic):
East River (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.), Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), New York (State), and New York
BEIN WA Prints +86: On sheet 37 x 49 cm. Date in copyright statement altered from 1852 to 1857., Printed area measures 22.6 x 40.4 cm., Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1857 by Henry Bill in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of Connecticut., Bird's eye view of San Francisco with 13 points of interest labeled: North Bay; Contra Costa; Yerba Buena Island; California Exchange; Plaza; Leonard's Warehouse; Rincon Point; Market Street Pier; California Street; Central Wharf; Catholic Church; Marine Telegraph; Anjill Island., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published for the History of the world by Henry Bill New York
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Print shows Joseph and Hyrum in paired full-length portraits, facing each other, wearing formal clothes, dark cut-away morning coats, light trousers, heeled boots, high shirt collars; light cravats; each holds a walking stick; Joseph has two hands on his cane and his coat is buttoned up; Hyrum has one hand on his hip, his coat open to reveal his vest
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +149: Imperfect: Imprint and date bled., Title from caption below image., Reproduction based on a painting by David Rogers made in 1842 later copied in a drawing by Sutcliffe Maudsley., and Printed area measures 38.4 x 23.7 cm.
