Photograph of Main St., San Andreas, Showing Presidential Campaign Banners and Local Residents.
California: 1892. Albumen photograph on board, very good contrast, mount near fine with minimal wear. Item #List3511
A photograph of Main St. in San Andreas in 1892, showing banners for the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson and the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid hanging above the street. Despite Cleveland’s national victory, the Republican incumbent Harrison narrowly carried California’s electoral votes, as discontent—especially among farmers and laborers—boosted support for the People’s (Populist) Party in California, splitting the anti-Republican vote. San Andreas, the county seat of Calaveras County, was adapting to the post-boom economy during the period. The photograph shows the local merchants, who, along with assay offices and transport links to larger markets, supported the town’s transition to smaller-scale hard rock and quartz mining as larger-scale placer operations dwindled.
Price: $250.00