DAILY PATRIOT, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 17, 1884

• President Grover Cleveland
• Presidential election victory
• Amazingly displayable

A wonderfully decorative post-election issue, the likes of which we rarely see.
The front page is mostly consumed by 38 rooster engravings celebrating the election of Grover Cleveland, whose likeliness is at the center of the front page (along with his Vice President, Hendricks). The rooster was once the symbol of the Democratic Party.
Four pages, there are several archival mends to tears on the inside pages and a few to the front, with some wear near the central fold. A great issue for display.

Background: The November 17, 1884 issue of the Daily Patriot from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, stands out as an extraordinarily rare and visually striking artifact of Gilded Age political print culture, distinguished primarily by its front page featuring 38 individual woodcut rooster engravings encircling center portraits of President-elect Grover Cleveland and Vice President-elect Thomas A. Hendricks. Published nearly two weeks after Election Day—a delay necessitated by the razor-thin, contested vote margins in New York that ultimately secured Cleveland's victory as the first Democratic president elected since 1856—this four-page issue captures a historic moment of partisan triumph. Prior to the widespread adoption of the donkey, the rooster served as the primary emblem of the Democratic Party, signifying "crowing" over a major victory. The sheer concentration of 38 distinct rooster illustrations on a single newspaper front page makes this edition exceptionally scarce and highly sought after by collectors of 19th-century American ephemera and political memorabilia.