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Beauties of the draft [graphic].
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Creator
Turner, A. A. (Austin Augustus), ca. 1831-1866.
Title
Beauties of the draft [graphic].
Publisher
New York: A.A. Turner
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1863
Date
c1863
Physical Description
6 photographic prints: albumen on carte de visite mounts; 11 x 7 cm.(4 x 2.5 in.)
Description
Series of six scenes satirizing the inequities and consequences of the Civil War draft. Shows a man bribing a Doctor to declare him as "too delicate" for the draft; a mother having a "last go" at a liquor bottle in front of her departing son; a soldier trying to talk a drunkard into enlisting; a soldier trying to move a stubborn mule; a man forced over by a gushing casket of lager to "avoid the draft"; and an enlisted man kissing his girl in front of a recruiting office as 'No substitute wanted.'
Notes
Created postfreeze.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs.
Turner was a New York daguerreian and photographer.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject
Intoxication.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Recruiting & enlistment.
Genre
Cartes de viste -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51i; l-n, & p]
Accession number
5780.F.51i; l-n, & p
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Civil War Photographs
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