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1.
The Pedlar and his pack, or, The desperate effort : an over balance

Creator:
Akin, James, approximately 1773-1846 , artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1828]
Call Number:
WA Prints +148
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the impact of John Binns's anti-Jackson "coffin handbill" campaign during the presidential race of 1828. Editor-publisher Binns struggles under a load of coffins, representing eight soldiers whose executions were ordered by Jackson, upon which are figures of Clay (left) and incumbent President John Quincy Adams (right). Clay encourages Adams to hold on to the President's chair
Alternative Title:
Desperate effort
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printed area measures 23.8 x 34.8 cm., and Imprint suggested by metadata for the colored states of this print held by the Library of Congress.
Publisher:
James Akin?
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Binns, John, 1772-1860, Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848., Binns, John, 1772-1860., and Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, History, Presidents, and Election
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Pedlar and his pack, or, The desperate effort : an over balance

2.
[Daguerreotype of Henry Clay].

Creator:
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Published / Created:
1849
Call Number:
GEN MSS 243
Collection Title:
Henry Elias Howland daguerreotype collection
Container / Volume:
Folder 9
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Kentucky Senator, Democratic Republican (1805-1810); Kentucky Representative, Democratic Republican (1811-1826); Speaker of the House, Democratic Republican (1811-1820, 1823-1824); Kentucky Senator, Anti-Jacksonian (1831-1836), Whig (1837-1852)
Alternative Title:
Taken at Philadelphia 28 Nov 1849
Description:
Daguerreotypes in modern archival housing. and Paper mats that previously accompanied the daguerreotypes provide additional captions and are housed in adjacent folders.
Subject (Name):
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians--United States and Portrait photography --United States --History --19th century.
Collection Created:
[Washington, D.C. ; Philadelphia : s.n., 1848-1850]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Daguerreotype of Henry Clay].

3.
Edmond T. Quinn papers, 1918-1928

Creator:
Quinn, Edmond T., 1868-1929
Call Number:
YCAL MSS 1001
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
128
Abstract:
The collection includes photographs of many of Edmond Quinn's sculptures, including portrait busts and statues of Cass Gilbert, Edwin Markham, Clayton Hamilton, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Clay, Brander Matthews, James Whistler, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, and Victor Herbert. The collection also includes one photograph of Quinn in his studio with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; a pencil sketch of James Stephens; letters from Edwina Booth Grossman, Charles De Kay, Winthrop Ames, and others; a draft biography for Who's Who; and clippings documenting the reception of Quinn's work
Description:
American sculptor and painter Edmond Thomas Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and under Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. Major works include the statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Gramercy Park, New York City, and the World War Memorial in New Rochelle, New York. He married Emily Bradley, of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917 (she later married Shepherd Stephens). Quinn died in New York City in September, 1929, an apparent suicide by drowning. and In English.
Subject (Name):
Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937., Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928, Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972, De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935., Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934, Grossman, Edwina Booth., Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946, Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940, Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Quinn, Edmond T., 1868-1929., Stephens, James, 1882-1950, Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, and Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Subject (Topic):
Artists, American and Sculptors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Edmond T. Quinn papers, 1918-1928

4.
"Locofocoism" in the Blue Stage of Texian cholera

Published / Created:
1844.
Call Number:
WA Prints +145
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Locofocoism" in the Blue Stage of Texian cholera