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
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.
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.
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 1...
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored.
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 Ma...
Alternative Title:
East River front
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 424: Partially hand-colored.
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
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 ...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +149: Imperfect: Imprint and date bled.
