I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
William Henry Harrison Campaign Pitcher
c. 1840
Large white pottery milk pitcher acquired by William Henry Seward during William Henry Harrison’s 1840 presidential campaign. Pictured on the pitcher, in black, are four pictures of William Henry Harrison, a log cabin with Ohio Farmer written below it and the American Eagle.
American Pottery Manufacturing Co., Jersey City - 1833-1840.
