Sheet music, "The Hard Cider Quick Step": Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet music, "The Hard Cider Quick Step": Date made: 1840. associated date: 1840 05 04. associated institution: Whig Party.
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The Whig campaign of 1840 against incumbent President Martin Van Buren established a pattern of predetermined imagery, from which later campaigns have seldom deviated. The Whigs adopted the symbols of the log cabin and hard cider to promote the candidacy of General William Henry Harrison. An outpouring of objects with designs of log cabins, such as this sheet music for “The Hard Cider Quick Step” from 1840, soon followed.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1840
- associated date: 1840 05 04
- associated institution: Whig Party
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 26.67 cm
- general subject association: Political Campaigns
- classified: Music
- ID Number: PL.227739.1840.E16
- catalog number: 227739.1840.E16
- accession number: 227739
- Credit Line: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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