Satirical “Salt River” type handbill advertising a fictional “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham
[1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio shortly after the Presidential election of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is lightly soiled..... More
