![The Workingman's Banner for President [1872]](/images/products/1/1/8/prod_11887.jpg)
- Date:
- 1872
- Original Format:
- Fine Print Illustration
- Item#:
- 18.309
The Workingman's Banner for President [1872]
This lithograph by Currier & Ives was published during the 1872 presidential campaign. It depicts Republican candidates Ulysses S. Grant, "the Galena Tanner," and Henry Wilson, "the Natick shoemaker," as workingmen in the careers they had pursued earlier in their lives.