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Title Although you're a Lieutenant bold.
Publisher [New York] : T.W. Strong, New York.
Date [1861-1865?]
Description The Lieutenant wears a blue Union lieutenant's uniform. His hair is white, and his face is dark with either dirt or facial hair. His mouth is open, his eyes are closed, and he spills gin as he marches. Gin has particularly negative connotations in the nineteenth century as the drink of the poor and unvirtuous.
Notes Text: Although you're a Lieutenant bold, / With sprouts upon thy chin; / At home you spent your store of gold / To drink a store of gin. / And, as your eyes with drunken lustre shine, / I ne'er can be your Valentine.
"513"
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Gin -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 1.14