Caricature of a sailor with a ring of cannons around his waist reading "The Cheese" to represent the Union ironclad, the Monitor, mocked by the Confederates as a "cheese-box." The battle between the smaller Monitor and the larger Confederate ironclad, the Virginia, (i.e., Merrimac) ended in a stalemate in March 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War era posters., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons [1862] - Ha [(6)5777.F.32b]
Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]
Civil War cartoon referencing George B. McClellan's failed 1862 peninsular campaign to criticize his cautious military performance as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army and his relationship with financier August Belmont and lawyer Samuel M.L. Barlow, New York Democratic Party leaders with Southern ties. Shows McClellan holding a shovel and sitting backwards on a mule that displays a flag marked "Strategy" on its tails and that Belmont and Barlow desperately try to move past human bones and away from Richmond. He advises the men to "coax" the animal because he does not believe in force and to keep his mule's head to the rear or his plans for "conquering the Rebellion will never be developed." Belmont, with several hats layered on his head and Barlow, a paper printed "Harrisons Landing July 7, 1862" in his pocket, "hold fast" and discuss Belmont's European ties and a letter written by Barlow on McClellan's behalf for the president that will be signed and sent following the general's "change of base.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862 Pen [5793.F.7b]
Cartoon concerning the enforcement of the Confiscation Act of 1861 depicting the absurd seizure of a Florida woman's wardrobe to "pay the expenses of the troops." A military officer, possibly Union General Winfield Scott, and his troops, bayonets and swords raised, collect the belligerent, Confederate belle's hoop skirt as they trample an American flag. The lady demands the return of her clothes or threatens to go to Union-occupied Fort Pickens (visible behind her) and "man one of the big guns, and blow [the men] to pieces.", Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-41W [P.9091]
Cartoon portraying a distorted version of events surrounding New York Governor Horatio Seymour's "My Friend's" speech during the Draft Riots of 1863 when several African Americans were killed by working-class rioters. Portrays Seymour on the steps of City Hall in front of a riotous mob composed primarily of armed Irish-Americans who march past the building for "The Tribune," an anti-Seymour newspaper. Supporting Seymour from behind are a fool with a cap inscribed "Express" (i.e., a Pro-Seymour newspaper), and former Mayor Fernando Wood and Tammany boss Peter B. Sweeny, both "Copperhead" Democrats who advocated peaceful settlement with the South and who believed Republican philanthropy favored African Americans at the expense of working-class whites. Seymour placates the mob announcing that he is their friend and that he has ordered the President to stop the draft. At his feet is an African American with a noose around his neck. A white man holds the severed head of an African American man, and several more African Americans are seen hanging from trees in the background., Probably drawn by Henry L. Stephens., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Place of publication supplied by Reilly., Text printed below image: A friendly voice.—Governor, we want you to stay here. Horatio Seymour.—I am going to stay here, “My Friends.” Second Rioter.—Faith, and the Governor will stay by us. Horatio Seymour.—I am your “Friend,” and the “Friend” of your families. Third Rioter.—Arrah, Jemmy, and who said he cared about the “Dirty Nagurs”? Fourth Rioter.—How about the draft, Saymere? Governor.—I have ordered the President to stop the draft! Chorus.—Be Jabers, he’s a “Broth of a Boy.”, 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1863-12 [P.2275.11]
Title from below: The great Massachusetts Hyena, an Extraordinary Animal newly discovered, true to his traditional instincts, he violates the grave!., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1862-2 [P.8500]
Title from below: The youthful Napoleon quietly sitteth down 'upon his base' before Richmond intending to take it when he gets ready., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1862-3a [7703.F]
"Potomac" in stone, lower left., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1862-5 [6698.F]
Entered ... 1862, by Currier & Ives ... New York., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1862-6 [P.2275.16]
Cartoon addressing the impropriety surrounding the purchase of substitute draftees during the Civil War. Depicts four wealthy gentlemen attempting to find substitutes in a draft office. To the right, near an "Avoid the Draft" notice, a gentleman offers a wad of cash to a possible substitute. The man dressed in working man's clothes informs him, "I'm looking for a substitute myself." In the center, two gentlemen, one holding several bills, the other overweight and bemoaning "I walk but one square I chafe," display for inspection their wretched, raggedly dressed substitutes to two Union officers, including a doctor. The physician accepts a "Lee veteran" despite his extreme thinness and missing teeth, while the second officer tells the portly man that he would prefer him to the substitute and that "one days march will take down his fat and a little tallow will remove the chafing." To the left, the fourth gentleman, crying into a handkerchief, tells an officer that he would rather "bleed for his wife" than for his "suffering country." In the background, bandaged and ailing men line up in front of the marshall., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-15W [P.2275.17]
Cartoon critical of Great Britain's lack of support of the Union depicting the country as a greedy, pompous, and disingenuous child. Depicts a smiling, well-dressed, plump lad partaking of a lavish table of food in front of an emaciated, begging dog on an outside patio near the ocean. In the background, an American ship sails near the shore and displays a banner labeled, "Coal?" On the shore, near a row of cannons and a pile of coal, soldiers display a British flag labeled "No!", Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Publisher's imprint stamped below title., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[between 1862 and 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-30W [6392.F]
Entered ... 1861 by Thomas W. Strong ... New York., Not in Reilly., [Signed M.A.] Woolf., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-1 [9780.F]
Entered ... 1861, by Currier & Ives ... New York., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-7 [6692.F]
Title from below: Thank You, Jeff. Not Amy., Entered ... 1861 ... Ohio., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-32 [6448.F]
Harley Del. [signed on stone; Joseph S. Harley]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-36 [6267.F]
Entered ... 1864, by Currier & Ives ... N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-42 [5793.F.3]
Entered ... 1865 by J.H. Bufford ..., Signed J.E.B. [Joseph E. Baker]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1865-20 [6382.F]
Comic collecting card satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture 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. Depicts a full-length view of Davis, attired in a shawl, a hoop skirt with a patch, and boots with spurs. A bonnet is tied around his neck, the edge of his skirt cage is visible, and he holds up a dagger in his right hand. A disembodied hand with a gun is pointed at him from the left., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by L. Prang & Co., in the Clerk’s Office, of the district court of Mass.
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War - Davis [P.2017.22.3]
Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1865-22 [P.2275.30]
Signed T. Welcker., A. McLean, Lith. [bottom left]., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1865-28 [6629.F]
Signed T. Welker., A. McLean, lith. [faintly visible, bottom left]., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1865-28 [6380.F]
Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture 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. Depicts Union soldiers chasing a fleeing Davis, who wears a bonnet and dress and carries a bag of gold (an allusion to Davis's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldiers wave pistols and swords and harrass Davis about his surrender, the bounty on his head, his ineffectual disguise, and his having reached his "last ditch." Davis responds that he thought that their government was "more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children." In the background, Davis's wife warns the soldiers "Look out you Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-32W [6384.F]
Entered ... June 7, 1865 by G. Querner ... D.C., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
June 7, 1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1865-39 [5795.F.d]
Pro-Confederate cartoon containing eighteen numbered figures and scenes to satirize the mayhem at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. Figures include: (1) Beauregard's (2) Jefferson Davis's and (3) Johnston's Confederate Headquarters; (4) Maryland Elzy's Battiry [sic]; (5) Union General Irvin McDowell; (6) Union General Daniel Tyler; (7) the Bull's Run; (8) New York Fire Zouaves; (9) New York 12th Regiment; (10) Union Sherman's Battiry [sic]; (11) Congressman Alfred Ely; (12) barricade for Members of Congress; (13) civilian spectators Lovejoy & Co. and (14) ladies as sputatiers; (15) Biddle, Brown & Co., members of Congress; (16) Union Blenker's Brigade; (17) Senator Wilson; (18) and the U.S. Dragoon. Depicts in the foreground: the Zouaves driving a bull that holds the American flag in its tail and is labeled, "Expenses for 100 Mill., Bad Business, Property, but no Security" in front of the retreating General Tyler and the New York regiment. The troops flee on the road to Washington past Union soldiers who lay dying and lamenting their foolishness near a "fat left-tenant" stating "God Save the Union" and Senator Wilson. Wilson refuses the pleas of a wounded soldier as he has "a wife and children to care for." In the background, Confederate troops march over a hill and mock the Union's abolitionist stance and lack of ammunition; Sherman's Battiry [sic] loads a cannon; Congressmen seek shelter behind a barricade of "U.S." wagons; civilian spectators Brown & Company flee by carriage as they deny aid to a white man who hollers, "you are more unmerciful then the overseer"; Congressman Ely, captured by the Confederates, offers a monetary bribe in exchange for his "liberty"; and the Union's Blenker's Brigade march into the battle in front of their retreating fellow soldiers General Irvin McDowell and the "U.S. Dragoon" who gallop "Home, Sweet, Home." Contains a key to depicted figures below the image., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1979., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-42W [P.2275.11a]
Not in Reilly., In Weitenkampf, title ends at "Diarrhea.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-45 [P.2275.13]
Weitenkampf: "Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press or Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-52 [5794.F.b]
Cartoon promoting the existence of a Union stronghold to defend against a Confederate seizure of Washington, D.C. Depicts General Winfield Scott as the bulldog, "Old General U.S.," protecting the cut of meat, "Washington Prime Beef," from the snarling, retreating greyhound "Jeff" (Confederate President Jefferson Davis). Davis, wearing a Confederate flag and broad-brimmed hat, slinks back to his side where a bale of cotton lies and a palmetto tree stands. Scott sits guard in front of several money bags, a cannon, and barrels of corn, flour, and "Mess Beef.", Per Weitenkampf, one of four variant designs after original by cartoonist Frank T. Beard that was also used on Civil War patriotic envelopes., Contains manuscript note lower right corner: Ballard Vale 1861., Contains manuscript note on verso: VA Ballard Vale May 1861., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-54W [P.2275.15]
Not in Weitenkampf., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864 Cop [P.2275.7]
Not in Weitenkampf., See 1864-14?., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1864 In [8366.F.44]
Entered ... 1864, by Currier & Ives ... N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-8 [6375.F]
Entered ... 1864, by Currier & Ives ... N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-14 [5793.F.5]
Entered ... 1864 ... by N. Bangs Williams, Providence [Rhode Island]., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-22 [5793.F.6]
Entered ... 1864 by L. Prang & Co. ... Mass., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-24 [6262.F]
Below title: three captions: A., B., C., Weitenkampf: drawing probably by H.L. Stevens., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-26 [6291.F]
Weitenkampf: Apparently by H.L. Stevens., Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-27 [6261.F]
Entered ... 1864, by Currier & Ives ... N.Y., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-28 [5793.F.7]
Cartoon promoting the existence of a Union stronghold to defend against a Confederate seizure of Washington, D.C. Depicts General Winfield Scott as the bulldog, "Old General U.S.," protecting the cut of meat, "Washington Prime Beef," from the snarling, retreating greyhound "Jeff" (Confederate President Jefferson Davis). Davis, wearing a Confederate flag and broad-brimmed hat, slinks back to his side where a bale of cotton and animal skull lie, a coiled snake hisses, and a palmetto tree stands. Scott sits guard in front of several money bags, a cannon, American flag, and barrels of beans, beef, and "Mess Pork.", Copyrighted by F.T.B. [Frank T. Beard?], Name of artist supplied by Weitenkampf., One of four variant designs that was also used on Civil War patriotic envelopes., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of Sumter and Anderson, Scott, Brownlow., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, lithographer
Date
c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-26 [5794.F.c]
Shows a Union officer, sword raised in the air, leading a troop of men attired as the Yankee character Brother Jonathan. Civilians and officers on horseback watch as the "troop" passes. Also shows the Potomac River and Washington skyline, including the Capitol, in the background., Copyrighted by C.F. Morse., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, lithographer
Date
c1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-1 [P.9177.14]
Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865. Davis,disguised as a woman, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering soldiers. Davis holds his hands in the air as one soldier pulls up his dress to reveal trousers below. Mrs. Davis, the lone female figure, begs the soldiers to leave her husband alone as they mockingly comment on his legs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Cameron, John, artist
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-31W [P.8978]
Civil War cartoon satirizing the awkward foreign relations between the United States and Great Britain caused by the royal proclamation of neutrality in 1861. The Queen issued the proclamation, which recognized the seceded states as having belligerent rights, in response to the Union blockades of Southern ports and its effect on international maritime trade and privateering. Consequently, the United States feared that Great Britain had acknowledged the Confederacy as an independent government. Shows John Bull and "Pat" on a dock discussing the sailor's enlistment in the Navy. Bull, the royal proclamation under his arm, warns the American that should he enlist with "either of the Belligerents" he would not be protected by Britain if taken as a pirate. "Pat" responds he does not want his protection and that the "stars and stripes" for which he fights will protect him. In the background, an American flag waves near a dock house adorned with a Union recruitment poster and a broadside highlighting the major themes of the royal proclamation including "Strict Neutrality"; "Privateering"; and "Letters of Marque.", Date supplied by Weitenkampf., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War materials., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Currier & Ives
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-1W [5780.F.b]
Entered ... 1860 by Currier & Ives ..., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Currier & Ives
Date
c1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1861-41R [7923.F.]
