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Title: [Abraham Lincoln caricature satirizing the draft]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln feeding a bottle of the "Black Draft" to a haggard looking man who sits with his feet in a tub. The bottle of "Black Draft" contains figures of African Americans., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Bispham - Caricatures and cartoon [5792.F.4g]

Title: [ African American boy playing soldier]
Description: Reproduction of a Thomas Nast drawing showing an African American boy, portrayed as a racist caricature and attired in a striped, collared shirt, torn and worn pants, and boots. He holds a broom like a rifle and marches near a pile of hay., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from Thomas Nast drawing., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51c]

Title: Angel of peace
Description: Caricature of New York mayor and Peace Democrat (i.e. Copperhead) Fernando Wood. Shows Wood with devil wings and horns, seated on a rock, with a snake labeled "Copperhead" wrapped around his ankle., Publisher's imprint with logo printed on verso., The Anthony firm, established in 1859, operated as a partnership from 501 Broadway between 1863 and 1871.
Creator: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Anthony - Caricatures & cartoons [P.9758.7]

Title: Apartments to let. Fort Lafayette
Description: Satiric carte de visite of a reproduction of a drawing of the New York island fort opposite Fort Hamilton used a a prison during the Civil War. Includes a boat of prisoners being rowed to the facility. The fort, completed circa 1818, was the first Northern location to receive prisoners of war in July 1861. Fort was razed in 1960., Copyright information partially legible., 5779.F.10c is unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Events, & Places., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5779.F.6b & 10c]

Title: "As if he had been in a bottle strongly corked."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing Benjamin Butler's failed expedition at Bermuda Hundred on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign (1864). As quoted in Ulysses S. Grant's 1885-1886 memoirs, Butler's command of the movement of the troops left the general "as if he had been in a bottle strongly corked" by the Confederate line. Shows Butler encased in a corked bottle in front of a map labeled "Bermuda Hundred.", LCP holds original caricature drawing, probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook [drawings & watercolors - unid. - B (P.2006.1.11)]., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2006.1.12]

Title: Beauties of the draft
Description: Series of six scenes satirizing the inequities and consequences of the Civil War draft. Shows a man bribing a Doctor to declare him as "too delicate" for the draft; a mother having a "last go" at a liquor bottle in front of her departing son; a soldier trying to talk a drunkard into enlisting; a soldier trying to move a stubborn mule; a man forced over by a gushing casket of lager to "avoid the draft"; and an enlisted man kissing his girl in front of a recruiting office as 'No substitute wanted.', Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Turner was a New York daguerreian and photographer., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Turner, A. A. (Austin Augustus), ca. 1831-1866
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51i; l-n, & p]

Title: Billy Morris
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature by William J. Gladding, Jr. of minstrel performer Billy Morris. Shows Morris at the bridles of a horse-drawn buggy followed by the grim reaper., Name of artist from duplicate in the collections of the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - M [(2)5750.F.146c]

Title: A bitter "draught"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln, attired in a smock adorned with stars, feeding "Conscription" medicine from a bowl to a scrawny Irishman who has his mouth wide open. An advertisement for "Dr. Lincoln's Ready Relief Pills" adorns the wall behind them., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.13]

Title: Brady's Album Gallery
Description: Incomplete series of the "Brady Album Gallery" of Civil War views first published in 1862 by New York publishers, E. & H.T. Anthony. Contains camp scenes, views of historic residences and military fortifications, and group portraits predominately photographed by unattributed Brady technicians, James F. Gibson and George N. Barnard. Gibson and Barnard hold copyright to twenty-six of the series. Contains series No. 1, 100, 100 (variant), 289, 302 - photographed by Barnard; No. 355, 360-361, 363-372, 377-380, 382-384, 388 - photographed by Gibson; No. 423-424, 427 - copyrighted and probably photographed by Brady., Views include: the incomplete Capitol in Washington, D.C.; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula including Union artillery batteries near Yorktown and Union headquarters of Generals McClellan, Scott, and Lafayette; and the inflation and ascent of the Union reconnaissance air balloon, "Intrepid." Group portraits depict African American Civil War freedom seekers, Union officers, and Union soldiers., Copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson and Mathew Brady., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister and Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the series., Names of the photographers supplied by "Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war from the gallery of Alexander Gardner (Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1863)." (Transcription in LCP research file)., Gift of Jesse G. Haydock, 1981., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Forms part of Small Civil War Photograph Collection., 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.
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - Brady cdv's [P.9877.1-29]

Title: Cabinet series - No. 5. "Bombastes furioso."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Civil War Commander-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck (1862-1864) that alludes to the "Bombastes" character in the 1810 opera "Bombastes Furioso." Shows Halleck wearing boots with huge spurs and holding a sword and pointing a finger at a boot marked "Commander in Chief" hanging from a tree. The opera character threatened death to anyone who removed his boot from a tree., Manuscript note on recto: Halleck., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7a]

Title: [Caricature of Jefferson Davis attired as a Chinese man]
Description: Shows Davis on a coast in front of a fleet of ships labeled "200 Chinese fleet" sailing toward a Chinese pagoda labeled "Richmond" in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5795.F.7d]

Title: Cartes de visite reproductions of "Campaign Sketches"
Description: Series of reproductions of lithographs of military life "sketched on the spot" by Homer and originally published by L. Prang & Co. in 1863. Includes "A Pastime," "The Coffee Call", and "Our Jolly Cook" showing white men soldiers gathered around camp fires to play cards; get coffee; and watch the African American man camp hand, portrayed as a racist caricature, dance. Also shows white men soldiers "Foraging" as they round up a cow on a homestead; the "Baggage Train" with two African American camp hands on the back of a conestoga wagon; and "The Letter for Home" showing a white woman volunteer assist an injured white man soldier in the hospital to write a letter., Title and date based on the L. Prang & Co. publication in 1863., Three of the images signed by artist: Homer del., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Original lithographs described in Katherine McClinton's The chromolithographs of Louis Prang (New York, C. N. Potter distributed by Crown Publishers, 1973), p. 144-147., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Homer - Caricatures & cartoons - Homer [5780.F.52i; 53b, d, g, i & n]

Title: Cartes de visite reproductions of Civil War era sketches by H.C. Bispham
Description: Collection of fifteen cartes de visite of sentimental, satiric, and racist Civil War era scenes, predominately depicting white men soldiers, by Philadelphia artist Henry Collins Bispham. Includes scenes of soldiers flushing out a sharpshooter, engaged in battle, wielding a knife, being thwarted from stealing a chicken and honey, dozing on watch, and confronted on horseback by a growling dog, as well as contrasting views of a Union and Confederate amputee soldier returning home. Racist caricatures show an ape walking with a cane, Lincoln spoon feeding a white man soldier the "Black Draft," and a downtrodden Southern white woman on the defense with an enslaved African American man on crutches and an African American boy. Other images show Abraham Lincoln as a dog confronting opossum Jefferson Davis on a tree and an itinerant white man musician with a monkey and dog. One scene includes a zouave., Two of the images signed by artist., Thirteen of the images attributed to Bispham., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - Bispham [5780.F.51 a, d, & h; 52a, l, p & q, u & v; 53 a,c, l&m, o&p]

Title: Cartes de visite satirizing the Civil War revenue systems
Description: Series of eleven satiric pieces with verse by sketch artist George D. Brewerton critical of the revenue systems instituted during the Civil War, particularly paper money. Satires depict montages and layouts of banknotes, coinage, and revenue stamps to mock the Revenue Act of 1862, which instituted revenue stamps, the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, which promoted a national banking system; and the dubious value of Union and Confederate banknotes. Titles include The Almighty Dollar; A Chas[t]e Attempt; Modern Curiosities; A Public Nuisance; Our Bleeding Country's Infernal Revenue Stamps; The Southern Cross; Uncle Abe's Last Joke; and Very Hard Cash. Some montages also include portraits or caricatures of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase., Includes one unmounted carte de viste., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials related to Abraham Lincoln and humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brewerton, George Douglas, 1820-1901
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - Brewerton [P.2282.47; 5780.F. 54a & c-e; 56q & s; 5792.F.1b; 4h & i; 5795.F.97g]

Title: Caught at last!
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature depicting General George Meade pointing a gun at a Confederate general, depicted as a snake. The men stand near a sign labeled "To Richmond.", Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.11f]

Title: Civil War photograph collection
Description: Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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.
Date: 1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]

Title: "Columbia rode safe through the storm."
Description: Reproduction of an allegorical print showing the American flag waving among storm clouds., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date: c1865
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5780.F.52f]

Title: [Comic scene showing a Confederate officer fleeing from a U.S. cannonball]
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing the officer, his hat flown off, trampling on a map marked "C.S.A." Also shows soldiers fleeing in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53h]

Title: A copperhead
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Philadelphia Peace Democrat and lawyer William B. Reed depicted as a snake in the grass. Reed, chastised as a traitor, was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration who promoted recognition of the Confederacy as the means to peace., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil war.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2282.48; (11)1540.F.15d]

Title: A copperhead
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Philadelphia Peace Democrat and lawyer William B. Reed depicted as a snake in the grass. Reed, chastised as a traitor, was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration who promoted recognition of the Confederacy as the means to peace., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil war.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2282.48; (11)1540.F.15d]

Title: A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
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., 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.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]

Title: "Done gone."
Description: Reproduction of an allegorical drawing depicting a tombstone inscribed "Hic Jacet Secesh" to represent the death of the South from Secession. Shows a black drape partially covering the tombstone and objects symbolizing the South, including a straw hat, hoe, corn cob, and dime novel, "the Pretty Milkmaid," laid around it., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52s]

Title: Edwin Booth
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature by William J. Gladding, Jr. of actor Edwin Booth in the character of Hamlet. Booth portrayed the character for 100 consecutive nights between November 26, 1864, and March 22, 1865, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - B [(1)5750.F.49i]

Title: Gen. Gilmore."I have no words, my voice is my gun."
Description: Reproduction of a satiric drawing criticizing Gen. Q.A. Gillmore's use of greek fire, i.e., an incendiary shell to bombard Charleston, S.C., a civilian center, in August 1863. Shows Gillmore addressing a soldier holding a protest banner near the cannon at the marsh battery, "Swamp Angel," on Morris Island. The banner reads "Protest of the use of Greek Fire. It is unchristian, uncivilized, and uncomfortable.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - Miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51g]

Title: The ghost of an "old soger" in camp
Description: Reproduction of a satiric drawing alluding to the "old soger," General Winfield Scott, the retired first commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Shows a huge smoking cigar bud, i.e., an "old soger," propped up in the middle of "Camp Scott." An officer looks on in disbelief., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52g]

Title: The great anaconda or creature of the woods
Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing showing Union Commander in Chief George McClellan, as an anaconda with its tail being pulled by a hand through a hole in a box. Refers to the unadopted Anaconda Plan initally proposed in 1861 by then Commander in Chief Winfield Scott and later interpreted by McClellan who became primarily associated with it. Plan involved blockades of Southern ports, a thrust down the Misssippi Valley, and a line of Federal strongholds., Publisher's imprint with advertising text printed on verso., Manuscript note on verso: George B. McClellan., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: P.2006.1.10

Title: Grinning for the presidency
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the undesirability of the possible candidates for the presidential election of 1864. Shows George McClellan, John Fremont, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin F. Butler wearing horse collars on a stage in front of a grinning spectator. A broadside reading, "Great Match. Grinning through Horse Collar. The Ugliest to Win. Prize White House." adorns the stage., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wood, William Horace
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.97i]

Title: The guerrilla chieftan
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, with the body of a guerilla., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5795.F.13e]

Title: The happy governor of Massachusetts
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of John Albion Andrew. Shows the rotund governor skipping. Andrew organized the first African American Civil War regiment., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.2a]

Title: Hawkins Zouaves 9th Regt
Description: Reproduction of a caricature of a Zoauve from the New York regiment. Shows the soldier with an abnormally long neck, running, with his rifle on his shoulder., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Gurney & Son
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52j]

Title: [Headquarters Lafayette - Headquarters Gen'l Porter. Farinholt's house and York River in the distance.]
Description: View from the Civil War showing the headquarters of General Lafayette and General Porter near Yorktown, Virginia during General McClellan's Campaign on the Peninsula. Depicts white Union soldiers, and African American men and a boy, probably freedom seekers, posed before Farinholt's dilapidated house supported by a large log. Several camp tents and the York River are seen in the background., Title from cdv photograph, Brady's Album Gallery, no. 370., Photographer given in Gardner catalogue (see LCP research file)., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Alexander Gardner was a respected photographer, businessman, and former manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. Gallery who produced the acclaimed "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., James F. Gibson was a prominent Civil War photographer and one-time manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery who also provided images for photographer Alexander Gardner's "Catalogue of photographic incidences of the war..." and "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War."
Creator: Gibson, James F., 1828-, photographer
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection - stereos - identified photo. [5779.F.6h]

Title: Home on sick leave
Description: Reproduction of a caricature showing a soldier dining with a young lady attired in an absurd hat. The soldier sips from a straw and looks sheepishly at his dining partner., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See related print: political cartoons - 1863 Hom [5780.F.d].
Creator: J. Gurney & Son
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51r]

Title: I cannot sing the old songs. Or, the late home of a Union soldier
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a young widow, in mourning attire, crying over a piano in a parlor. A portrait of her deceased soldier husband hangs in the background., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator: Monroe, N.
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53j]

Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: Intelligent contraband
Description: Reproduction of a caricature of Horace Greeley, publisher of the newspaper, The New York Tribune. Shows Greeley as a hobo carrying a bundle on a stick inscribed "New York Tribune. H. Greeley."., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.194c]

Title: It's no use knocking at the door
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing George McClellan holding a valise labeled "Strategy" using the knocker of a door labeled "White House" and "1865." James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald, attired as a Scotsman and holding a valise labeled "N.Y. Herald" accompanies the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. The New York Herald published several stories critical of Lincoln's management of the war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George B. McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24f; P.2006.1.23

Title: It's no use knocking at the door
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing George McClellan holding a valise labeled "Strategy" using the knocker of a door labeled "White House" and "1865." James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald, attired as a Scotsman and holding a valise labeled "N.Y. Herald" accompanies the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. The New York Herald published several stories critical of Lincoln's management of the war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George B. McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24f; P.2006.1.23

Title: Jefferson Davis smelleth a mice and reflects
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing a rotund man, turned away from a full length mirror and aghast at a mouse scurrying down a pole resting on the rung of a rolling ladder., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24d]

Title: John Collins
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the New Jersey Quaker, founder of the New Jersey Horticultural Society, and developer of Miami Beach, Florida., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - C [(1)5750.F.98d]

Title: Joseph Hooker
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General known as "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Shows Hooker as a pugilist., Title from manuscript note on mount: Jos. Hooker., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7c]

Title: Kill-Patrick suppressing the riot
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, nicknamed "Kill Cavalry" as a result of the high casualty rate of the men under his command. Shows Judson astride a horse as he impales a caricatured figure of an Irishman with a sword., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.8c]

Title: Libby Prison The only view of this notorious prison made during the Rebellion. Dick Turner stands in the foreground
Description: Exterior view of the notoriously inhumane Confederate Prison, previously a warehouse. Depicts Turner, the former commandant of the prison, standing with a small group of white people including a child, in front of rows of tents. African Americans look on from a nearby hill., Title from label mounted on verso., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by Levy & Cohen in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Forms part of small Civil War Photograph Collection, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish Philadelphia photographers who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Creator: Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - cdvs - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.2]

Title: Liberty
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a bust-length portrait of the allegorical female figure of Liberty. She wears a gold crown, a necklace with a large medallion stamped "U.S.," and the American flag as a shawl., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator: Horton, Henry W.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52b]

Title: Lincoln's "guardian angel."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of William Seward, the Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. Shows Seward with a vest and coat, wings, and a toga skirt. He holds a sword. Also includes a caricature of Napoleon III in "Mexico" in the background. Seward threatened American intervention against the puppet government installed in Mexico by France in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.18b]

Title: Macbeth. November 16, 1861
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Philadelphia actor Edwin Forrest in the character of Macbeth. Shows the actor in a Scotch cap and holding a shield., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.157e]

Title: Napoleon III
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing the face of dictator Napoleon III comprised of human figures and a cannon. Depiction alludes to the failing Mexican empire established by Napoleon III in 1864 under the reign of Emperor Maxmilian, former Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maxmilian. Includes text in French below the image., Title from manuscript note on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons [(3)5750.F.160b]

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

Title: Negroes and religion. Disciplina et regula ordinis flagellantium [Discipline of the order of flagellants] The Episcopal Church at the South. To the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Description: Copy photograph of an abolitionist satire containing a montage of scenes mocking the pro-slavery dioceses from the seceded Southern states absent from the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York in 1862. Probably related to an earlier pamphlet of the same title satirically "promoting" the policy that the church's African American communicants be treated as the South treats the enslaved people. A devilish figure with wings inscribed with the names of Confederate states, holding a "Testimonial" scroll under his arm, thumbs his nose and unlocks the door of the "House of Bishops" at the "General Convention." Figures pray at an altar near an animated preacher while stating, "We welcome our friends." A white man whips a bare-chested and bare-footed African American enslaved man, who kneels with his hands bound to a post. Two white women watch the events from the side of their dilapidated wooden house. During the Civil War, the Southern dioceses became the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See related pamphlet Negroes and religion: The church at the South. Memorial to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (United States : s.n., 1856?). (LCP Am 1856 Neg 18399.O.9)., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous prints and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5780.F.52h]. Purchase 1999 [P.9758.3]., 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: [ca. 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5780.F.52h; P.9758.3]

Title: A nest of copperheads
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature depicting Jefferson Davis and prominent Peace Democrats, i.e. copperheads, as a nest of snakes in the grass. Includes Davis, Charles Ingersoll, William B. Reed, James Buchanan, Fernando Wood, Rev. John Chambers, Clement L. Vallandingham, and Rev. Wilmer, possibly chaplain to Confederate soldiers George T. Wilmer., Sitters identified by manuscript note on verso., One of the images probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., One of the images originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.9758.4; (11)1540.F.3c]

Title: New York Light Guard
Description: Reproduction of a caricature showing a Light Guard depicted as a mannequin attired in a uniform. The light-weight soldier stands in front of broadsides advertising the "roll of honor Engagements of the Light Guard" and "Academy of Music Ball.", Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Gurney & Son
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51q]

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