AMER AUGUST 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, August 24, 2015.
TWO GRAPHIC AND COLORFUL POLITICAL POSTERS FOR THE 1900 CAMPAIGN OF WILLIAM MCKINLEY AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT.1) Massive 40" x 27" colorful lithograph by W.J. Morgan & Co., Cleveland, OH. A huge jugate image of both candidates are found on either side of a fine American flag held by the "Goddess of Plenty". 2) 21" x 16" color lithograph by Allied Printing, Chicago. Also imprinted "Trades Council, Union Label, 142". In this poster, McKinley is promoting his past four years "THE ADMINISTRATION'S PROMISES HAVE BEEN KEPT". Jugate portraits are surrounded by vignettes representing highlights of the past administration and a large American flag banner surmounts the poster. SIZE: PROVENANCE: From the personal estate collection of John W. Armiger Jr. CONDITION: 1) Very good to fine as conserved. Conservation frame measures approx 51" x 39". Excellent colors. Repaired tears and inpainting to several cracks & tears, especially on the Roosevelt portrait. 2) Good to very good. Excellent colors. Cracked at vertical and horizontal central folds. Small 1/2" reductions at top and bottom of vertical fold unaffecting text. Central 1/4" reduction at intersection of two folds. Conservation frame measures 31-1/2" x 26-1/2". Additional history and provenance and archival treatments are printed on back of each frame and are pictured in internet catalog. 49055-30 JS (5,000-6,000)