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Title Congressional surgery legislative quackery. [graphic] / A., Del.
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1866
Date [1866?]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26 x 21 cm (10 x 8.25 in.)
Description Cartoon addressing the defeated South's resistance to the pending post war amendments which would declare equal rights for African Americans. Depicts a doctor's office where the seated "Dr. North" counsels "Patient South," who stands before him with his arm in a sling. He proposes that after the removal of the South's legs the "Constitutional Amendment" peg leg, which rests on his desk, will support him well. The South states that he "Can't See it." In the left, a young African American person crouches on the floor beside the doctor's chair. Behind the desk stands a bookshelf labeled "Congressional Surgery, Legislative Quackery" where a skull and a bottle of "Black Draught" are displayed. Contains three lines of dialogue below the image.
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf.
Date of publication suggested by Reilly is 1860 as the content suggests that the cartoon was published following the proposed Crittenden and Douglas Compromises.
Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Constitutional amendments.
Medical offices -- United States.
Peg legs.
Physicians -- United States.
Quacks -- United States.
Racism in popular culture.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1866 - 10W [5760.F.115]
Accession number 5760.F.115