Clear the Track: First Republican Party Elephant

Clear The Track: Earliest Republican Elephant (1860)
Title
Clear the Track: First Republican Party Elephant
Rights
Public Domain
Type
Illustration
Creator
Illinois State Journal
Date
August 9, 1860
Description
Elephant running, wearing men's shoes, carrying a banner that reads "We Are Coming. Clear the Track!"
Format
Visual Image in Newspaper advertisement for a political rally
Language
English
Place
Killdeer on an Illinois PrairieIllinois
Publisher
Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Illinois) August 9, 1860. Reprinted in Anecdotal Lincoln: Speeches, Stories and Yarns of the Immortal Abe, edited by Paul Selby. Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1900, p.131.
Archive.org copy of Anecdotal Lincoln
Subject
1860 Republican ElephantRepublican Party
Item sets
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