Dude sweet music, superb costumes. - [Balloon labeled "H. Lachambre," with two men riding in the basket]

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Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world.

Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 & 3 Burgon Street, Carter Lane, London, E.C.

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call.

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank.

A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of ye incredible folly transacted in the year 1720

Satire of various financial schemes.

Now in the press, and next week will be published, for the benefit of my fellow citizens and their posterity (In octavo) The true art of mixing every kind of wine and spirits, so as to retain the flavour of either sort you desire ... Also the tr

Recruting poster for the Mass. state train of Artillery, Boston, 1776

By the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation. The time is at length come, in which the fate of ourselves, our wives, children and posterity must be speedily determined, General Howe, at the Head of a Briti

The tiger lilies

The Chinese collection in the lower saloon of the new building at the corner of 9th & George Street, Philadelphia... / drawn on stone by A. Newsam ; P.S. Duval lith., Philada. ; engraved by J. & W.W. Warr.

Poster depicting Chinese people and scenes, announcing exhibition of Chinese objects.

Sub treasurers meeting in England

A satire on corruption among Tammany officeholders in New York, showing absconded former Collector of the Port Samuel Swartwout and federal District Attorney William M. Price in London. The massive fraud and em... more

The Eugenie garter--Manufactured by the American Garter Company / Rae Smith lith. N.Y.

Advertisement poster showing woman putting on garter.

The Secretary of War presenting a stand of colours to the 1st Regiment of Republican bloodhounds

A bitter vilification of the Van Buren administration's use of bloodhounds to hunt fugitive Indians during the Second Seminole War in Florida. The artist condemns the racism and inhumanity of the measure, as w... more

Professor Cummings, the celebrated magician, vocalist, and comedian!!

Cooke's Circus, York Hotel, Nicolson St.

Poster for Cooke's Circus showing three illustrations with text: a man on a trapeze(?), "Gulliver and the Lilliputians", and an animal act with animals in human situations.

An old hunker fishing for votes

Facing a relative lack of enthusiasm for his campaign in New York State, Lewis Cass hoped to muster Democratic rank-and-file support by endorsing for lieutenant-governor the popular lawyer Charles O'Conor. Her... more

Repeated to-night grand combination Swiss bell ringers and Continental Vocalists at the public hall

[Poster offering fifty dollars reward for the capture of a runaway slave Stephen.]

Grand, national, democratic banner - press onward - portraits from daguerreotype / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows a presidential campaign banner featuring bust portraits of candidates "For President Franklin Pierce" and "For Vice President William R. King" in ovals with laurel wreaths beneath a bust portrait of... more

Soliciting a vote

A cynical view of party competition for the working man's vote in the presidential campaign of 1852. In a polling place, four candidates struggle to force their own election ticket on a short, uncouth-looking c... more

Grand, national, democratic banner - press onward / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows a presidential campaign banner featuring bust portraits of candidates "Franklin Pierce" and "William R. King" in ovals with laurel wreaths beneath an eagle perched on a globe labeled "America" and a... more

Bristol's Sarsaparilla

Poster advertisement showing head-and-shoulders portrait of C. C. Bristol framed with filigree of sarsaparilla plants.

Clinton County Illinois Republican Party, Monday, May 03, 1858 (Poster for Republican meeting)

Breaking that "backbone"

A figurative commentary on Northern efforts to end the rebellion during the early years of the Civil War. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (far left) displays "the Great Southern Gyascutis," a dog-like mon... more