| Creator |
King & Baird. |
| Title |
Specimen sheet Union, patriotic and humorous designs upon envelopes [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : Printed by King & Baird, 607 Sansom Street |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1863 |
| Date |
[ca. 1863] |
| Physical Description |
2 prints : wood engraving, color with letterpress ; sheet 58 x 41 cm (22.5 x 16 in.) |
| Description |
Advertisement containing twenty-five examples of Civil War envelope vignettes published by King & Baird. Majority of the vignettes
include titles and slogans. Designs depict the American flag; liberty, the American eagle; soldiers (including the martyred
Colonel Ellsworth); caricatures of Brigadier General Henry A. Wise (former governor of Virginia), Jefferson Davis, and the
Southern gentry; a portrait of Washington; an abolitionist scene showing the whipping of an African American man entitled
"The persuasive eloquence of the Sunny South"; and a racist caricature of an African American man on all fours carrying a
whip and asking in the vernacular, "Whar's Jeff Davis?" Also contains a description of the envelopes and shipping information,
as well as the scale of prices ranging from "25 Assorted Envelopes, (25 kinds)" at 25 cents to 1000 at 5 dollars.
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| Notes |
Title from item. |
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Text printed on recto: Single copies of this sheet will be mailed free of postage, upon receipt of six cents, by King & Baird,
Book and Job Printers, 607 Sansom St., Philadelphia.
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Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War prints. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5786.F.161a].
Accessioned 2002 [P.2002.45].
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RVCDC |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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| Subject |
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 -- Portraits. |
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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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King & Baird. |
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African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Allegories. |
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Flags -- American. |
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Liberty. |
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Patriotic envelopes. |
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Patriotism -- United States. |
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Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Slavery -- Southern States. |
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Enslaved persons -- Southern States. |
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Soldiers -- Union. |
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Whipping -- Southern States. |
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Enslaved men -- Southern States. |
| Geographic subject |
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel. |
| Genre |
Samples -- 1860-1870. |
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Wood engravings -- Color -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War [5786.F.161a; P.2002.45] |
| Accession number |
5786.F.161a |
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P.2002.45 |
