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James Akin

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Richard R. John. Taking Sabbatarianism Seriously: The Postal System, the Sabbath, and the Transformation of American Political Culture. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 1990)
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Christina H. Nelson. Transfer-Printed Creamware and Pearlware for the American Market. Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 93–115
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of Blunt entitled 'Infuriated Despondency' and a verse he called 'A Skillet Song.'" The caricature was later featured in the
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in Newburyport. "In late October 1804 the two men argued publicly, and in the course of the disagreement Blunt threw an iron
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Nina Fletcher Little. "The Cartoons of James Akin upon Liverpool Ware." Old-Time New England, (January 1938)
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Maureen O'Brien Quimby. The Political Art of James Akin. Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 7 (1972), pp. 59–112
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Lewis C. Rubenstein. "James Akin in Newburyport." Essex Institute Historical Collections (1966)
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at Akin, hitting an unfortunate passerby. Akin, uninjured, retaliated with a deragotory
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in 2006, heaping scorn upon Blunt and his descendants. A few examples still exist.
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1835 cartoon shows President Jackson challenging French King
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James H. Akin
South Carolina
Philadelphia
Newburyport, Massachusetts
William Henry Harrison
Jacob Perkins
American Antiquarian Society
Library of Congress
U.S. National Portrait Gallery
Winterthur Museum

Louis Philippe
Edmund March Blunt
skillet
print
Newburyport Herald
Liverpool
Illustration by Akin published in John Drayton's A View of South Carolina, 1802 (Winterthur Museum)
John Drayton
Caricature of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, ca.1804, attributed to Akin (American Antiquarian Society)
Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings
"Infuriated Despondency," 1805; satirical portrait of Edmund M. Blunt wielding footed skillet (Worcester Art Museum)
"Caucus curs in full yell," 1824; critique of "the press's treatment of Andrew Jackson, and on the practice of nominating candidates by caucus during the presidential race of 1824" (Library of Congress)
Andrew Jackson
presidential race of 1824
1830 caricature of American Christian Sabbatarians, whose "goal was to prevent the federal government from desecrating the Sabbath by requiring that the mails be transported and the post offices open to the public seven days a week" (American Antiquarian Society)
Sabbatarians
"Object Lessons: "All in my eye!" James Akin and his Newburyport social caricatures"
"Thomas Leavitt and his Artist Friend James Akin"

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