Item 35: A Ribbon Printed with a Portrait and Signature of Zachary Taylor, 1849 March 5
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 35
Dates
- Created: 1849 March 5
Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities
Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Ribbon.
Condition Note:
Good. No notable damage outside of some folds in the ribbon.
Measurements:
8 ⅜ in. x 2 ⅜ in.
Description:
The following item depicts a ribbon with a portrait painted of Zarchary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States. The ribbon is being printed in honor of Zachary Taylor’s inauguration day. with the phrase, “the People’s Choice,” and an autograph of his included. In the image, Taylor is depicted in a bust-length portrait, wearing a dark overcoat with four breast buttons, a black neck tie, and a white undershirt.
There is another one of these ribbons digitized on the Library of Congress’s website.
Transcription:
Z. Taylor
The Peoples Choice
Inaugurated March 5th
1849.
Creator
- From the Sub-Series: Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Madison, James, 1751-1836 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: McClintock, Gilbert Stuart, 1886-1959 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, 1768-1849 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Monroe, James, 1758-1831 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Breckinridge, James, 1763-1833 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Tyler, John, 1790-1862. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Pres. U. S. 1882-1945 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: McKinley, William, 1843-1901 (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: (Axson) Wilson, Ellen Louise (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-1980. (Person)
- From the Sub-Series: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu