Authentic View of the Bar Room, in the Log Cabin, Broadway, New York, Head Quarters of the 14th Ward Tippecanoe Club (Political Broadside)
Anonymous, American, 19th century American
Not on view
This political broadside was published during the 1840 presidential campaign in support of the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison, who ran against and defeated President Martin Van Buren. This campaign was the first to use modern techniques that promoted candidates nationally with ads and events. Harrison had been governor of Ohio and served as a general in the War of 1812 and his campaign adopted a log cabin and cider drinking as symbols to cast their candidate as a man of the people, when in fact he came from an elite Virginia family. This broadside depicts the barroom in a New York campaign headquarters built to resemble an actual log cabin.
