2-798-528 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Great Whig Procession, at New York, 1844. Crowds line the streets as a mounted procession carries banners through the city: 'a Whig procession in New York, drawn by J. Kobb. The procession was headed with a cavalcade bearing banners with various devices Then came carriages and waggons, with implements representing the mechanic arts, which were followed by a body of men and boys, some carrying flags and banners, and the whole under the direction of a chief marshal and assistants, The view is taken from the corner of Chamber-street and Broadway. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.