The
follies of the age, vive la humbug!!
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- 1850-1860
Political cartoons -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia]
PA. Philadelphia
[publisher not identified]
[1855?]
1855
monographic
eng
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 32 x 49 cm (12.75 x 19 in.)
Critique of the social climate of the year of 1855 mocking several of the year's fads, social movements, and major events, many specific to the city of Philadelphia. Depicts several individual scenes occurring on an active street lined by businesses near a river. Depictions include: a scene representing the case of Jane Johnson, an African American woman freedom seeker aided by abolitionist Passmore Williamson; a group of ragged and armed white men filibusters holding the banner "Sam" rushing off to free Central America from European control; a stand where one is "allowed to drink 48 glasses of Lager Beer" where a white man police officer tries to stop a white man drunkard; a group of white women Mormons on a cart headed to "Salt Lake City"; a white man hugging two white women as his angry wife looks on and calls them "Ceresco free-lovers" after the Utopian society that lasted until 1855; two motley groups of local militias drilling; a caricature of the popular French actress Rachel who had an inauspicious debut in Philadelphia; and groups of individuals partaking of "water cures" and "sea baths." In the background the Camden Amboy train crash of 1855 is depicted as well as the destruction by fire of the Philadelphia steamer "John Stevens."
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Johnson, Jane
1820?-
Caricatures and cartoons
Rachel
1821?-1858
Caricatures and cartoons
Williamson, Passmore
Caricatures and cartoons
Abolitionists
United States
African American women
Caricatures and cartoons
American wit and humor, Pictorial
Alcoholic beverages
Disasters
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Fighting
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Filibusters
Free love
Fugitive slaves
Pennsylvania
Hydrotherapy
Medicine, Popular
Mormons
Enslaved persons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Social conditions
United States
Social life and customs
1854-1861
P.9624
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Political Cartoons - 1855-Fol [P.9624]
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p. 100
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