Object Details
- Description
- More so than the distinguishing marks of party symbols or candidate portraits, color helped observers identify party ballots as they were cast—and who cast them. Voting was still not entirely secret. The parties printed and distributed paper ballots cut from sheets. Virginia’s Union Party issued a pink paper ticket in 1860.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated date
- 1860 11 06
- Credit Line
- Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- buff, black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Name
- Ballot
