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Contributor Chapman, J., publisher.
Title A distinguished arrival. [graphic] : Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Publisher New York : J. Chapman
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (3.75 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York.
Purchase 2004.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Capture & imprisonment.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cross dressing.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American soldiers -- United States.
Finance -- Confederate States of America.
Prisons -- Virginia -- Fort Monroe.
Racism in popular culture.
Soldiers -- Union.
Geographic subject Fort Monroe (Va.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Printer Chapman, J., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]
Accession number P.2004.6.2