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Whig bazaar

Description: Image of a political cartoon showing United States President Martin Van Buren shopping for wigs (in a play on words of the Whig party); the clerk tells Van Buren that the wigs are not made for his type but offers him some "conservative oil" while a devil representing the Loco Focos (the radical faction of the New York Democrats) offers him an "uncontaminated" wig that is visibly full of bugs; wigs on stands labeled "'76" are lined up on the counter with additional stock in boxes on the floor.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1837
Call number: priJLC_POL_004007
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Disturbing a Martins nest

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Image of a satire on the administration of United States President Martin Van Buren (at right) referencing his alliance with political strategist Amos Kendall against Senator Nathaniel P. Tallmadge; Kendall (left) and Van Buren are at a table strewn with "discharge" papers; Kendall is seated below a painting of Andrew Jackson titled "Glory," and reads the "Globe" newspaper; Van Buren sits below a portrait of "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair; Tallmadge watches from behind a curtain at center.

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Sub-treasury system, or office holders Elysium

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Image of a political cartoon on the United States Treasury under the administration of Martin Van Buren; chest labeled "United States Sub-Treasury Independent of the People" drops bags of money on office-holders; Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury holds paper treasury notes for "Coblers and Tinkers;" Van Buren gives bags of money to Secretary of War Joel Poinsett at right.

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The presidential fishing party of 1848

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Image of a political cartoon illustrating the United States presidential election campaign of 1848; candidates (left to right) Martin Van Buren, John Hale, Lewis Cass, and Zachary Taylor fish from opposing banks of a river filled with fish bearing the names of the states; on a firm rock marked "Constitution," stands Taylor at right with fish swarming about his line, most of them hooked on its multiple leaders, "Ohio" being prominent in the center; it rains on the left bank (in contrast to Taylor's sunny bank), where the other candidates stand; directly across from Taylor is Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren, standing on "Free Soil" and fishing with a pole whose line has broken and only the fish "New York" swims with his broken tackle toward Taylor's line; behind Van Buren is a cabbage patch; further upstream stand Democrat Lewis Cass and Liberty party candidate John Hale, who commiserate on their poor catch.

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Martin Van Buren, president of the United States

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Image of a full-length portrait of United States president Martin Van Buren standing on a balcony next to a table with one hand resting on an open book.

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