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Pres. James Garfield
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. From Brady-Handy photograph collection
15--14--13.-The Great Presidential Puzzle
1 print: chromolithograph, color. | Illustration shows Senator Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwarts group of the Republican Party, playing a puzzle game. All blocks in the puzzle are the heads of the potential Republican Presidential candidates.
Hyenas at Work
Print shows a pack of hyenas labeled "N.Y. Commercial, N.Y. Sun, N.Y. Herald, Washtn. Post, The Rosecrans Letters, [and] 306" crowded around a sepulchral monument to James A. Garfield labeled "Fame"; those hyenas labeled "306" are pulling on a rope…
Interior View of the Great Exposition Building, in Chicago, Decorated for the Republican Convention, June 2nd, 1880
Photograph shows interior of building decorated with flags hanging from the rafters.
Republican National Convention at Chicago, June 2, 1880.
Photograph shows the President, delegates, reporters, prominent men on the platform, and the visitors' gallery watching as Gen. Garfield delivers a speech to hundreds of attendees at the National Republican convention.
Going for a 3rd Term
Caricature of Ulysses S. Grant as being inebriated and trying to walk from a lamp pole labeled "2nd term" to lamp pole labeled "3rd term": a policeman in a doorway says, "Will he make it?"
