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Honest Voters Trying to Elect Their Officers in front of the house [upper] Ballot Box Stuffers, Electing Their Men behind the house [lower]

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Title: Honest Voters Trying to Elect Their Officers in front of the house [upper] Ballot Box Stuffers, Electing Their Men behind the house [lower]
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Upper image is of a man on a barrel electioneering and voters lined up to pass a ballot box in the doorway of a building. There are many speech bubbles coming from various figures in the image commenting on the election. Lower image is of two men handing bags of gold through a window in back of the house, another man approaching with more bags, and other men standing around. Speech bubbles come from all of the figures in the image, each offering their comments on the election. "Noisy Carriers 64 & 66 Long Wharf."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
Baird notes that this image refers to the state election of September 5th, 1855.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 28.7 x 22.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:068
14115
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23456
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
Local elections
Elections--California
Lithogaphs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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