Grant and Wilson campaign broadside

Colored broadside depicting Ulysses S. Grant, the Republican candidate for president, and Henry Wilson, the Republican candidate for vice president, during the election of 1872. Text on the poster reads "Our People's Choice and Pride. Peace and Prosperity! Liberty and Equality. Victory in 1872." Both men are being crowned with laurels by a central figure. After his first term as president (1868-1872), the incumbent Grant won the 1872 election easily with fifty-six percent of the popular vote. Wilson had replaced former vice president Schuyler Colfax, a controversial figure involved with the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal during his vice presidency.