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Banks, Politics, Hard Cider, and Paint
"It is my conclusion that this
man, a merchant, banker, and literary amateur named
Charles Augustus Davis, commissioned Cider Making
in order to celebrate the stunning victory of the Whig
party over the Jacksonians in the election of I840. It is
my further belief that the picture not only speaks
directly to the event of that election, but contains sym-
bols that were as immediately recognizable to the
American electorate of the time-particularly the New
York section of it-as
in the I950S a button reading I LIKE IKE was."
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