Dear all – I’m turning to the list because I don’t how to find this info easily. My institution owns an extraordinary 1868 presidential campaign rally poster/placard, for the loser, Seymour, that is still mounted in its original frame on a pole. It is in frightful condition, and needless to say, cost estimates are high for conservation. What I am wondering, in order to justify the cost, is if there are any other surviving placards of this type – meaning mounted in a frame on the pole for a rally. Rarity and uniqueness always goes far to support my arguments that the expenditure for the conservation is important and necessary to my committee, which might just see a crumbling old poster for a loser in a crude wooden frame!
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have.
Candace Kintzer Perry
Curator of Collections
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
105 Seminary Street
Pennsburg, PA 18073
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