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Image Title: Hoboken Clay Club, 1844

Creator: Hemming, R.,

Date: 1844.

Summary: Print shows a Whig campaign badge produced for the Hoboken Clay Club featuring portraits of candidates Henry Clay (right) and Theodore Frelinghuysen (left). The portraits, in overlapping ovals, are surmounted by an eagle and a scroll inscribed "HOBOKEN CLAY CLUB." Below the portraits are two circular scenes showing Clay, "the Mill Boy" on horseback before a mill and (at right) cheered at a political rally near the Capitol as "The People's Choice."

Notes: The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on July 22, 1844. Another impression in the Library's collection (no. 1844-7), lacking the lettering "Hoboken Clay Club," was deposited for copyright on June 3, 1844.

Subjects: Clay, Henry,--1777-1852
Frelinghuysen, Theodore,--1787-1862
Political parades & rallies--Washington (D.C.)--1840-1850
Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

Places: Washington D.C.

Original Media: Woodcut print

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