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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.
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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
In Collections
Civil War Photographs
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