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Rare campaign newspaper by the short-lived Greenback Party...



Item # 697552

August 11, 1880

THE WISCONSIN GREENBACK, Milwaukee and Sparta, Aug. 11, 1880  Actually a campaign newspaper for the Greenback Party. This was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology that was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before it faded away.
Page 2 has the: "Platform and Preamble" of the Greenback party.
Four pages, large folio size, various tears at margins & the central fold, lightly toned. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Item from Catalog #355 (released for June, 2025)

Category: Post-Civil War