Box 4
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Lithograph: The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run": Abraham Winning the Ball. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: GEN945-4-1
Scope and Contents
This lithographed political cartoon was submitted for copyright by the New York firm of Currier & Ives weeks before the 1860 presidential election, in obvious anticipation of a Republican victory. Its creator, Louis Maurer, utilized the newly popular game of baseball as metaphor for the "national game" of presidential politics. Shown are Lincoln and his three opponents: the Constitutional Unionist John Bell, of Tennessee, and the two candidates of a fractured Democratic party, Stephen A....
Dates:
1860
Oversize research materials for Sports and Pastimes of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant, 1872
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: GEN945-4-2
Oversize research materials for Sports and Pastimes of the Presidents: Grover Cleveland, 1884
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: GEN945-4-3
Oversize research materials for Sports and Pastimes of the Presidents: William Howard Taft, circa 1909-1913
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: GEN945-4-4