2020-09 Putnal
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Group of FIVE complete and authentic issues of "The Log Cabin", "Published Simultaneously in New York and Albany", each 4pp., disbound, VG. Includes, May 22, 1841, May 29, 1841, June 5,1841 July 31, 1841, August 7, 1841. The Log Cabin, edited by Horace Greeley, was the leading campaign newspaper of 1840, with a circulation of 80,000. It took its title and masthead imagery from the first comprehensively merchandised symbol in American politics. The paper provided entertaining news as well as reports on the speeches and policies of soon-to-be president William Henry Harrison. Within a year, Greeley transformed the Log Cabin into the New York Tribune.
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