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ourpresidents:
“ Thank you to everyone who shared their posters, signs, and brochures for the first week of #ElectionCollection with @usnatarchives and @americanexperiencepbs!
We’d like to give a special shout out to @americanantiquarian...

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ourpresidents:

Thank you to everyone who shared their posters, signs, and brochures for the first week of #ElectionCollection with @usnatarchives and @americanexperiencepbs!
We’d like to give a special shout out to @americanantiquarian and@thedamlibrarian for Rather Disturbing Campaign Memorabilia while @nixonlibrary and@minnesotahistoricalsociety were Most Groovy!
Check out all the great finds and fascinating history at #ElectionCollection here.
We can’t wait for next week’s challenge. See you on Tuesday!
Participant Images:
William McKinley/Teddy Roosevelt poster from the 1900 campaign from the Hervey A. Priddy Collection of American Presidential and Political Memorabilia. @culdigital
“I Like Ike” hanging signs from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Humbert Humphrey 1968 Presidential Campaign Poster from the @minnesotahistoricalsociety.
“Happy days are here again!” proclaimed this 1932 banner celebrating the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and end of Prohibition from @amhistorymuseum National American History Museum.
1872 anti-Horace Greeley lithographed fan includes anti-Greeley cartoons on the verso from @AmericanAntiquarian.
Advertisement for tin puzzles created by artist Everett Shinn of 1908 presidential nominees William Taft and William Jennings Bryan. The trick was to place the pupils, which were steel balls, in their eye sockets. From @damlibrarian Delaware Art Museum.
Nixon-Agnew campaign catalog filled with groovy MOD MODES FOR NIXON paper clothes that local campaign offices could order from the @RichardNixonLibrary Nixon Presidential Library.