10.16 x 8.5725 (Advertising Card, folded) (centimeters)
Description:
Novelty advertising cards show a portrait of Samuel Tilden when folded and Ulysses S. Grant when unfolded item also contains separate Republican- and Democratic-related poems. Both cards advertise Blackwell's Genuine Durham Tobacco each advertises different tobacco retailers (one John Bossardet of Brooklyn, New York and the other P.J. Hanour of Buffalo, New York). Item appears to have been issued before Grant withdrew from the 1876 Presidential race.
Cite As:
Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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