Our National Prosperity. Education, Church & State. Our Brave President: “You Keep Heart - I Have Not Yet Lost Mine!” Providence Protect Him, Providence Will Save Him…Memento of the Attempted Assasination. July 2nd, 1881.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Our National Prosperity. Education, Church & State. Our Brave President: “You Keep Heart - I Have Not Yet Lost Mine!” Providence Protect Him, Providence Will Save Him…Memento of the Attempted Assasination. July 2nd, 1881.

Color lithograph designed by James Meyer Jr. With central portrait of President James Garfield surrounded by the members of his Cabinet. With economic figures and societal facts of life in America, such as a list of “prominent religious sects in the US” (includes Jews). The whole within intricate illustrated background. Brittle, tears. 15 x 22 inches.

New York: E.G. Rideout & Co 1881

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $700

The commercial designer James Meyer created a series of broadsides as memorials to President James A. Garfield who eventually died, September 19th after having being shot eleven weeks earlier by Charles J. Guiteau.