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Campaigns Past: Cowboy Hats and Hard Cider
Manage episode 446323847 series 2519747
With Election Day just around the corner, we go back in time to figure out how early presidential candidates got their message, and their image, in front of voters. It wasn't easy. Asking directly for people's vote was seen as undignified, so candidates mostly stayed home in the early 1800s. As a result, most Americans didn't know for sure what their candidates looked like, or sounded like.
Kim speaks with curator Claire Jerry, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, about the stream of new technologies-- from printing to photography to radio-- that transformed political advertising and gave candidates a more direct line of communication with the American people.
See the portraits and campaign materials we discussed:
William Henry Harrison campaign button
Abraham Lincoln, by Mathew Brady
Abraham Lincoln campaign button
74 epizódok
Manage episode 446323847 series 2519747
With Election Day just around the corner, we go back in time to figure out how early presidential candidates got their message, and their image, in front of voters. It wasn't easy. Asking directly for people's vote was seen as undignified, so candidates mostly stayed home in the early 1800s. As a result, most Americans didn't know for sure what their candidates looked like, or sounded like.
Kim speaks with curator Claire Jerry, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, about the stream of new technologies-- from printing to photography to radio-- that transformed political advertising and gave candidates a more direct line of communication with the American people.
See the portraits and campaign materials we discussed:
William Henry Harrison campaign button
Abraham Lincoln, by Mathew Brady
Abraham Lincoln campaign button
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