Lantern Insert for the 1864 Republican Presidential Campaign, "Lincoln and Johnson"

Late-nineteenth-century political parties rallied their supporters by holding torchlight parades. In the evening, marchers lit up the street carrying torches, lamps and lanterns. Many of these political lanterns glowed with the names of the candidates, slogans and patriotic symbols. Supporters of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson--the Union Republican ticket--would have placed this paper insert into a campaign lantern during the 1864 presidential election.