NARRATOR: This is a very good example of an anti-Jackson cartoon. It's actually after Jackson has left the presidential office, but it's his economic policies, many believed, that caused the Panic of 1837.

And so, this image is meant to reflect all of the various problems that exist. You have a number of workmen who are standing there who are out of work. You've got people in bread lines. You've got people standing in the background in front of the Mechanics Bank.

There's a banner on top of the bank that states, "No specie payments made here." This is in regards to Jackson's Specie Circular regarding the sale of Western lands. So, there's a lot within this image that are kind of poking fun at Jackson over the problems that have been caused as a result of the Panic of 1837.

Floating in the sky is a little balloon that is losing air that has written across it, "Safety Fund." So that if we do have a little bit of a surplus in the bank, it's all disappearing very quickly because of this panic.

The other thing that is up there is a picture of Jackson's quite famous beaver hat. And it has a broad, black band on it that was a mourning band that he placed on it when his wife died that he kept on there forever. And it's got, "glory" underneath of it because everything was "glory" in relation to the Battle of New Orleans.

The idea of Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans, there's no question that that's what carries him to the steps of the White House. The idea that he is this great patriot who saves the United States in the War of 1812. But still, you have all of these bad things that are happening directly under this kind of larger symbolic vision of Jackson.