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Title The negro on the brain. [graphic].
Publisher Raston, Pa. : T.W. Lyon & Son, prs
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 2 photographs on 1 sheet : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4 x 2.25 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Racism in popular culture.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Reproductions -- 1860-1870.
Printer T.W. Lyon & Son, publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]
Accession number 5792.F.1a

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