Win With Wendell L. Willkie / The Hope of Our Country

Window banner promoting Wendell Willkie for president, 1940. Printed satin. Unlisted in Collins, Threads of History. Suspended from a wooden rod with gold cord and tassels, for hanging in the front window of a home. Features a portrait of the candidate enclosed by elongated flags.

The unlisted mate to a Franklin Roosevelt banner (Collins 1183), this uncommon textile promoting his Republican challenger is a great display item from the period.