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Contributor Brewerton, George Douglas, 1820-1901, publisher.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Our bleeding country's infernal revenue stamps. [graphic] / ["I say internal ought to be spelt with a T, boss says it hadn't] Printers Devil.
Publisher New York: G.D. Brewerton
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1864
Date c1864
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on carte de visite mount; 11 x 7 cm.(4 x 2.25 in.)
Description Montage criticizing the Revenue Act of 1862, which allowed the first Federal use of revenue stamps. Shows an overlay of stamped correspondence containing a caricature of Abraham Lincoln as an elderly woman wearing a bonnet as the centerpiece. Also contains verse sarcastically comparing the divergent responses of the country to the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Revenue Act. The adhesive revenue stamps were be applied to nearly all Civil War-era documents and several proprietary articles, such as photographs and medicines.
Notes Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Revenue stamps -- United States.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects.
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Reproductions -- 1860-1870.
Printer Brewerton, George Douglas, 1820-1901, publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Brewerton - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4i]
Accession number 5792.F.4i

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