“Examiner & Herald Extra” Pennsylvania for Taylor
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1848 - 18¼ x 7 inches
 
A narrow election broadside issued as an Extra by the Examiner & Herald announcing the results of the 1848 presidential election in Pennsylvania. Headed by an American eagle beneath a banner proclaiming “Old Zack is Coming!!! Victory!!,” the sheet captures the immediacy and triumphal rhetoric of election-night reporting in the mid-nineteenth century.
 
Printed for rapid circulation following the vote, such newspaper extras were ephemeral by nature and survive as vivid documents of partisan celebration and public political culture.
 
Condition: Fold lines, toning, and scattered staining consistent with age and original distribution.