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ON VIEW
D.	Andrew Jackson bandbox
between 1820 and 1845; color woodblock on paper adhered to cardboard 2072.0405.2
E.	Statuette based on Clark Mills’s equestrian statue of Major General Andrew Jackson
between 1855 and 1859; cast zinc with imitation bronze paint
by Cornelius and Baker, foundrymen 7983.742
F.	Andrew Jackson funeral ribbon
1845; wood engraving on silk
by an unknown engraver; after Ralph E. W.
Earl, artist
The William C. Cook War of 1812 in the South Collection, MSS 557, 2008.0101.9.10
federal judge for mutiny and that culminated, decades later, in a national debate over the question of whether Jackson had gone too far.
The uncompromising former general served two turbulent terms as president of the United States. Old Hickory’s firm stance against South Carolina’s 1832 attempt to avoid federally mandated tariffs, as well as his willingness to fight France over its failure to fulfill treaty obligations, earned the respect of friends and foes alike, but other policies overshadowed his successes.
An original manuscript letter from Jackson to his secretary of war, John Eaton, illustrates the president’s close involvement in the systematic removal of native tribes from ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama.
Jackson’s death at the age of 78, in 1845, unleashed a national outpouring of grief, as well as a new wave of artistic interpretations of his life in the years leading to the Civil War. Rare funeral ribbons memorializing Jackson and subsequent uses of his image in artworks
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The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly