N124 Presidential Possibilities of 1888
N124 back
This set of 25 cards was issued with Honest Long Cut tobacco by the Duke company in 1888.
They're large cards (2 9/16" X 4 1/8") displaying portraits of presidential "possibilities" for that year's election, where
Benjamin Harrison (Rep.) was pitted against the incumbent Grover Cleveland (Dem.). Cleveland won the popular vote,
but Harrison beat him in the electoral college; this didn't happen again in a presidential election until 2000. Most prominent among the other politicians in this set are
William McKinley (elected president in 1896) and Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln.
Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the full image.
Alger
Russell A. Alger
of Michigan
Blaine
James G. Blaine
of Maine
Butler
Benjamin F. Butler
of Massachusetts
Campbell
James E. Campbell
of Ohio
Carlisle
John G. Carlisle
of Kentucky
Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
of New York
Depew
Chauncey M. Depew
of New York
Donnelly
Ignatius Donnelly
of Minnesota
Flower
Roswell P. Flower
of New York
Foraker
Joseph B. Foraker
of Ohio
Fuller
Melville W. Fuller
of Illinois
Gorman
Arthur P. Gorman
of Maryland
Gray
Isaac P. Gray
of Indiana
Gresham
Walter Q. Gresham
of Illinois
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
of Indiana
Hawley
Joseph R. Hawley
of Connecticut
name
David B. Hill
of New York
Hill
Robert T. Lincoln
of Illinois
McKinley
William McKinley Jr.
of Ohio
Palmer
John M. Palmer
of Illinois
Pattison
Robert E. Pattison
of Pennsylvania
Peffer
William A. Peffer
of Kansas
Rusk
Jeremiah McL. Rusk
of Wisconsin
Sherman
John Sherman
of Ohio
Whitney
William C. Whitney
of New York
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