'Under Which Flag?' campaign poster   Save
Ohio History Connection Archives & Library
Description: Campaign poster from the 1920 presidential election that reproduces an illustration of Warren G. Harding, the Republican Presidential candidate, standing under the United States flag, while James M. Cox, the Democratic Presidential candidate, raises the flag of the League of Nations. The poster is meant to portray Harding as the candidate who is concerned with the best interest of the United States, evidenced by his "America First" platform. Created on January 15, 1919, as part of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I, the League of Nations was an intergovernmental group founded primarily to maintain world peace. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05196
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)