| Title |
Gorilla envelope |
| Publisher |
[New York] : New-York Union Envelope Deport [sic], 144 Broadway |
| Date |
1861-1865 |
| Physical description |
1 envelope; 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 3.5 in.) |
| Notes |
Image: Dressed in uniform, with a belt full of weapons, the gorilla stands with a rifle in his right hand. |
|
Verse 60: A Southern Gorilla (Guerilla). |
|
Caption: "Oh! for a nigger, and oh! for a whip; Oh! for a cocktail, and oh! for a nip; Oh! for a shot at Old Greeley and Beecher;
Oh! for a crack at a Yankee school-teacher; Oh! for a captain, and oh! for a ship; Oh! for a cargo of niggers each trip,"
and so he kept oh-ing for all he had not. Not contented with owing for all that he'd got.
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| Genre |
Patriotic envelopes 1860-1870 |
| Coverage |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Is part of |
Civil War Envelope Collection |
|
Civil War Envelope Collection |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.5352.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector |
| Identifier |
Caricatures - Animals - Mammals, Etc. |
| Accession number |
Envelope C-A-O-62 |
| Bibliographic citation |
William R. Weiss. The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). |
