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Image Title: Democratic Candidate, 1868

Creator: Matier & Kent, lithographer

Date: 1868.

Summary: Print shows a campaign banner for Seymour and Blair. Medallion portraits of the candidates are framed with oak branches and hang from a staff held by an American eagle. The eagle carries a streamer with the words, "E' Pluribus, Unum" and sits on a pedestal partly covered by an American flag. On the pedestal is inscribed, "The Union, Constitution and the Laws." At its base lie a Phrygian cap, the Constitution, and the scales of justice. At the top, above the eagle, is a single star.

Subjects: Blair, Francis P., Jr
Constitution (pictured)
Seymour, Horatio, as presidential candidate

Original Media: Lithograph

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