 BRITISH SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT CIGARETTE CASE AND ‘CINDERELLA’ STAMP WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN” SLOGAN
Web ID: ws-146  EXCEPTIONAL 1821 PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON CLOTH, IN MULBERRY RED, PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY ROBERT & COLLIN GILLESPIE FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET; ONE OF THE VERY FIRST DECORATIVE RENDERINGS OF THE DOCUMENT IN ANY FORM, AND PERHAPS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Web ID: ker-258  1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAMPAIGN PARADE FLAG WITH 33 STARS IN A PENTAGON MEDALLION AND AN INTRIGUING ABBREVIATION OF HIS NAME, ATTRIBUTED TO H.C. HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA
Web ID: 33j-871  HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, SILK, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FLAG, MADE FOR WHIG PARTY CANDIDATE HENRY CLAY, LIKELY IN 1844, WITH HIS APPLIQUED PORTRAIT IN THE CANTON, TAKEN FROM AN 1832 SILK CAMPAIGN RIBBON, WITH A STRIPED FIELD THAT BEGINS & ENDS ON WHITE, AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE
Web ID: ofj-895  16 STAR “DISUNION” FLAG, WITH 13 STARS ON THE OBVERSE, MADE TO CONVEY AN ABOLITIONIST MESSAGE IN THE 8-YEAR TIME FRAME FOLLOWING THE ADDITION OF CALIFORNIA AS THE 31ST STATE, WHEN THERE WERE 16 FREE & 15 SLAVE STATES, REMOVING THE LATTER FROM THEIR TOTAL; THE COUNT OF 7 STRIPES REMOVES THE 6 SLAVE STATES FROM THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES; LIKELY PRODUCED IN SUPPORT OF THE 1856 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF THE FIRST REPUBLICAN NOMINEE JOHN FRÉMONT, WHO RAN ON AN ANTI-SLAVERY PLATFORM
Web ID: 16j-810  BLACK, TASSELLED, EDWARDIAN STYLE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, MADE BY FOLLMER, CLOGG & Co. OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, MODIFIED FOR SUFFRAGETTE USE BY WAY OF AN APPLIED, CHIFFON SILK PANEL WITH FANCIFUL, SCRIPT-EMBROIDERY THAT READS: “GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE,” circa 1900-1915
Web ID: ws-131  ROLLER-PRINTED YARD GOODS TEXTILE, MADE TO MEMORIALIZE GEORGE WASHINGTON SOMETIME BETWEEN LAFAYETTE’S FINAL VISIT & GRAND TOUR OF AMERICA, FROM 1824-25, AND THE 1832 CELEBRATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 100th BIRTHDAY
Web ID: pat-596  COPY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON CLOTH, PRINTED IN BOSTON IN 1832 TO MEMORIALIZE THE PASSING OF THE LAST SURVIVING SIGNER, CHARLES CARROLL OF MARYLAND, IN THE YEAR THAT COINCIDED WITH THE 100th BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Web ID: pat-738  UNUSUAL & GRAPHIC, RED BANDANNA-STYLE, PORTRAIT STYLE PARADE FLAG FROM TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S 1912, INDEPENDENT, BULL MOOSE PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Web ID: pat-725
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