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.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $700

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

E.G. Rideout & Co

Place

New York

Publication

1881

Description

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.

summary

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.

Brittle, tears. 15 x 22 inches.

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