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Like many nineteenth-century books, this biography of Andrew Jackson was issued in parts. Each part would come out in an individual printed paper wrapper as the work was printed. In this case, only seven parts were issued and the text stops…

The Jacksonian Wreathwas a gift book published to celebrate the first inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. It included a map, music, and engravings as enticements to purchase it. A later Jackson biographer, James Parton, described it as "a…

This lithographed portrait depicts Andrew Jackson sitting at a desk, holding a sword. Another reworked black & white version of this lithograph was published by D.W. Kellogg & Co. of Hartford, Ct. in 1847. Both the colored and black & white versions…

In 1825 Andrew Jackson was still being celebrated as a victorious general even though he had just lost his first bid for the presidency. This advertisement was for a wax museum that presumably traveled from town to town. It displayed the likenesses…

Eagle-eyed collector Bill Cook noticed this sixteen-page pamphlet ofProceedings of the Democratic Conventionin an auction catalog and immediately contactedtheAAS curatorial staff to see ifthe itemwas of interest. Additional financial assistance from…

This engraving is a portrait of Gen. Andrew Jackson in military uniform astride a horse. He holds his hat in his proper right hand. The image is not entirely unknown, as the Library of Congress has the same portrait. The video included here shows all…

AAS already had a copy of theCongressionaland State Government Almanac for1835,which, thought titled Almanac is really more of a directory. However, a second copy was acquired when close comparison revealed that the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era…

If you have seven copies of The Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson, all published in 1837 in Concord, N.H., you keep the one in the best condition and pass along the rest, right? Well, when the head of cataloging at the American Antiquarian Society sat…

Here is a publishing mystery. A bound set of page proofs of Parton's Life of Gen. Jackson came to AAS as part of the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection. The volume has a handwritten note tipped in declaring it to be one of only two copies…

The title page ofBiographical Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jacksonis dated 1828, which squares with the description in the text of Jackson and "the important relation in which he now stands to the American people, as a candidate for the splendid…

Like Jackson himself, Davy Crockett (1786-1836) came to be known as a larger-than-life Tennessee frontiersman. However, Crockett was no supporter of Jackson. He vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the…

This previously unknown pamphlet is already being used by readers at AAS: a literary scholar working on disability studies and a poet looking for eccentrics and examples of the way they used language.Elegiac poems for President Andrew Jackson were…

Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828) married Andrew Jackson in 1791 or 1794. The ambiguity in dates depends on which marriage you count. When they first married, the couple had assumed Rachel's first husband had secured a divorce. Turns out he had…

The engraving "What de debil you hurrah for GeneralJacksonfor?"was originally part of a racist Life in Philadelphia series satirizing upwardly mobile African Americans that was drawn by Philadelphia native Edward Williams Clay. It was originally…

Pushmataha (1764/65?–1824) was a Choctaw warrior who fought against Creeks and Seminoles with Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. He later negotiated treaties with GeneralJackson, but Pushmataha died while in Washington,D.C.,to protest the…

Was the creator of this Jackson portrait an African American free man of color or not? What we do know: this lithograph was created by Jules Lion. Born in Paris, in the mid-1830s Jules Lion immigrated to New Orleans, where the 1837 city directory…

A portrait of “General Andrew Jackson” opposite the narration of Jackson’s appointment to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796—his first political office. He was elected to the House of Representatives that year…

An image of Nashville, where Jackson settled as a lawyer in 1788.

An image of Daniel Webster, a contemporary and later rival of Jackson, this portrait originally came, like many other portraits in this extra-illustrated Life, from the 1834 book The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, [catalog…

A portrait of Lord Cornwallis appears opposite a description of Jackson’s participation in the Revolutionary War as a young boy of fourteen. After the death of his older brother, Jackson and another brother were captured and badly treated by British…