Details
Title An Aspiring Soldier.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [1861-1865?]
Description The valentine shows three men in uniform carrying guns.The first and last men are the same height, but the middle figure is twice their heights and much thinner.
Notes Text: Gaunt and slim and bony baby, / You will be promoted -- maybe; / Than your comrades two foot higher, / For what more can you aspire?
Variant of Valentine 5.9.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Tall people -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.24.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 1.24