Coffin Handbills

Monumental inscriptions!
Coffin Handbills series, 1828 (Harvard University Libraries)

The Coffin Handbills were a series of pamphlets attacking Andrew Jackson during the 1828 United States presidential election. Jackson was running against incumbent John Quincy Adams. The campaign featured multiple attacks on the character and personal history of both candidates. Many of the attacks were false.[citation needed]