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- Title
- Old Nick in Wall Street
- Description
- Cartoon mocking Nicholas Biddle, president of the controversial Bank of the U.S., as a corrupt emperor of finance served by New York's financial district. Depicts a self-effacing Biddle on the steps of a bank delivering a speech to a large crowd of his obsequious cheering subjects comprised of bankers and brokers. Two men, possibly New York editors accused of accepting bribes in return for publishing pro-Bank articles, Charles King and/or Mordecai Manual Noah and/or James W. Webb, hoist him on their knees. Biddle declares that he will bear the burden of the attacks of the Bank opponents as those before him will acquit him of scandal. In the far left background, a group of men describe Biddle as a monster and allude to his dubious relationship with New York merchant Silas E. Burrows, who was accused of bribing Noah and Webb. Contains a fabricated verse below the image from the popular poem "The Devil's Walk," commonly misattributed to Robert Porson (as in the cartoon) about the faithless servility of Satan's subjects., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Date
- [1832?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-18W [5760.F.50]
- Title
- A confederacy against the Constitution and the rights of the people with an historical view of the component parts of this diabolical transaction
- Description
- Cartoon during the Bank War satirizing the Whig Party as greedy, anti-democratic, pro-Bank, pro-business infidels who worship in the Temple of Mammon to the false god of riches. Atop the temple, a white man, holding a flag inscribed "No Veto! The Bank! Down with Democracy!" kneels on a pedestal inscribed "Bank Candidate. War, Pestilence, and Famine." Within the temple sit symbolic and political figures including: the Devil representing the "Hartford Convention" of 1815, which debated Northern secession; the "High Church" as a clergyman pleading for donations to preach; the "High Priest" Henry Clay with his "U.S. Bank Book" sitting on his throne the "Chair of State"; the "High Chancellor," Bank of the United States president, Nicholas Biddle pouring out a bag of money to buy newspaper editors; a Northerner ("High Tarrif") discussing slavery, "You Southern Barons have black slaves will you not allow us to make white slaves of our poor population in our Manufacturing Baronies"; and southern pro-nullification senator John C. Calhoun ("No Tariff"), who bemoans his association with Whigs in his personal campaign against political rival Martin Van Buren. In the foreground, worshipers, including monkeys, pray and are chained near a printing press, pro-Bank newspapers, and flags and banners. The flags and banners denigrate "Jefferson," "democracy," and "equal rights" and support "high tariffs," the "merchant class," the "Bank of the United States," and "white slavery.", Title from item., Artist's initial lower left corner: H., Probably published by labor radical Seth Luther., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2001, p. 27, 30., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., 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
- [1833?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1833-20 [5760.F.43]
- Title
- Banks & bribery, v.s. balls & bumbs scene 1st Or the destruction of aristocracy monopoly and oppression
- Description
- Cartoon concerning President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States, including his veto of the Bank's recharter and the removal of its federal deposits. Depicts Jackson, "Jack Downing," and others attacking the Bank with axes, "veto mortar," and cannon balls. Jackson and "Downing" hollar about "smashing down" "Monopoly & Oppression" as well as the absence of a "nest of varmants" when the house was originally built. Members of Bank investigative "committees" flee the building, while others are crushed under the bank, its "deposit pillar" destroyed. Spectators, including evil sprites, run a press, clamor for tossed money bags labelled with alleged bribery amounts, and scream "This is a fair business transaction." Also includes sheets of paper scattered on the ground inscribed with allusions to the Bank War, including"Deranged Currency" and "Petitions.", Manuscript note on verso: From his Aunt Isabella 1840., Previous owner, probably C.P. Lukens. See Congressional Elephant political cartoons - 1832 - 2 (5760.f.42)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, editions.
- Date
- [1834?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1834-4W [5760.F.58]
- Title
- Where's my thunder?
- Description
- Cartoon comparing the Senate chamber with a courtroom to satirize the Senate's response to Henry Clay's controversial and long-debated Compromise of 1850. Depicts Webster stealing the "Fugitive Slave Act" out of the pocket of Clay, who snoozes at his desk in the Senate (an allusion to the Senate's predominately positive reception of abolitionist Senator Webster's controversial support of the Act). In the background, Senators scowl, nap, and look on in anguish, including Lewis Cass of Michigan and Henry S. Foote of Mississippi. Cass, proponent of popular sovereignty and the extension of slavery, exclaims "Ain't tha man done yet." Foote, who proposed a special committee to revise Clay's omnibus bill, brandishes a club (probably an allusion to his violent confrontation with rival Thomas Hart Benton over his proposal). Contains several lines of text describing the larceny trial of "Defendent" Webster and "Complainant" Clay, including "loud applause" during Webster's departure of the "Court-room" compared to Clay's scarcely noticed exit. Also contains note: "(See Police Report in the Daily Screamer).", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [1850?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1850-3W [6691.F.]
- Title
- Grand Federal Menagerie!! Now on Exhibition!!
- Description
- 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
- Dissolving Views of Richmond Scene 1st
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Head Quarters At Harrison's Landing "See evidence before Committee on Conduct of the War"
- Description
- "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]
- Title
- The Blockade of the "Connecticut Plan"
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Offering a substitute. A scene in the office of the provost marshall
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Offering a substitute. A scene in the office of the provost marshall
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Young England O, shameful England! Greedy puffed with pride, a friend in sore distress, thy false heart hath denied
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Secession displayed
- Description
- Pro-Union cartoon containing a montage of vignettes representing the consequences of secession, particularly the denigration of American freedom. Depicts Roman soldiers representing the "Demons of Nullification, Secession, and Treason" attacking the "Temple of Freedom," the edifice adorned with the names of Revolutionary heroes and battles. The allegorical army carries a "Flag of Disunion" inscribed "Liberty! [To Extend Slavery]," swords, spears, and torches. These soldiers of "war" and "rapine" trample upon the torn Constitution and American flag. In the background, surrounding vignettes depict the bloodied, manacled "Genius of Liberty," depicted as a white woman, fallen beside "Free Speech" and the "Free Press"; the "Servile Insurrection" depicting enslaved Black men attacking white men, women, and children; the king "Military Despotism," depicted as a white man attired in a crown, brandishes manacles and bayonets to complete "the work begun by the traitors"; ghostly figures of "Departed Heroes & Sages," including Washington, Jefferson, and Adams look aghast "on the sacrilege perpetrated in the name of Liberty"; and Liberty, depicted as a white woman, weeps beside an upside down American flag and below the quote of the executed French revolutionary, Madame Roland, "O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name.", Text printed above image: "Indignantly frown upon every attempt to alien any portion of our country from the rest"--Washington., Text printed below image: The enemies of the Republic, from the Gulf, or Lower Regions, led on by the Demons of Nullification, Secession and Treason, assail the Temple of American Freedom, consecrated by the blood of the Martyrs of Liberty. Raising the Flag of Disunion, the Traitors trample on the Star-spangled Banner and the Constitution which they have sworn to defend. The Genius of Liberty is stricken down and manacled. War and Servile Insurrection prevail. Military Despotism, of necessity, succeeds, and with its chains and bayonets completes the work begun by the Traitors. The Genius of America weeps, while, above, the shades of departed Heroes and Statesmen gaze with sad astonishment on the sacrilege perpetrated in the name of Liberty! “God Save the Commonwealth.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by John Barber, in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Connecticut., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1981., 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 Sec [P.8699]
- Title
- Our national bird as it appeared when handed to James Buchanan. March. 4. 1857 The identical bird as it appeared A.D. 1861. / "I was murdered i' the Capitol." Shakespeare
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The " Secession Movement"
- Description
- 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
- Ye Conference
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Heads Of The Democracy
- Description
- 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 1864-31 [6378.F]
- Title
- Little Mac Trying To Dig His Way To The White House But Is Frightened By Spiritual Manifestations
- Description
- 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 1864-33 [6371.F]
- Title
- A Thrilling Incident During Voting 18th Ward, Philadelphia, Oct. 11
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill
- Description
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoon 1864-37 [6628.F]
- Title
- The War Candidate On A Peace Platform
- Description
- 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 1864-39 [6290.F]
- Title
- The True Issue, Or, "Thats Whats The Matter"
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Head Of The Confederacy On A New Base
- Description
- 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 1865-13 [6383.F]
- Title
- Jeff's last shift Capture of Jeff. Davis
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The last of the chevaliers. (End of the play.) Jeff. "I thought your government was more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children."
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Jeff. Davis caught at last. Hoop skirts & Southern chivalry
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Jeff's Last Skedaddle Off To The Last Ditch. How Jeff In His Extremity Put His Navel Affairs
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Jeff's Last Skedaddle Off To The Last Ditch. How Jeff In His Extremity Put His Navel Affairs
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The last ditch of chivalry or, a president in petticoats
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Uncle Sam's Menagerie
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The battle of Bull's Run
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Battle of Booneville Missouri, June 18th 1861 a Sketch of Genl. Price commander of the Rebel Forces taken with a Violent Diarrhea at the beginning of the Battle
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Hercules Of The Union, Slaying The Great Dragon Of Secession
- Description
- 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 1861-51.a [5794.F.a]
- Title
- The Old General Ready For A "Movement"
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Why don't you take it?
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Copperhead Millenium "And the Lion and the Lamb shall lie down together," And Sammy Barlow shall lead them
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- In Council
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Running the "Machine"
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Old Bull Dog On The Right Track
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Chicago Platform
- Description
- 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 1864-20 [5793.F.1]
- Title
- Little Mac's Double Feat Of Equitation
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- 1832. Democracy. 1864
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- How Columbia receives McClellan's Salutation from The Chicago Platform
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Chicago Platform, What Is It, Peace Or War
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Political "Siamese" Twins The Offspring Of Chicago Miscegenation
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Platforms Illustrated [Two scenes:] Baltimore, Chicago
- Description
- 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 1864-29 [6372.F]
- Title
- The man that blocks up the highway
- Description
- Cartoon satirizing President Andrew Johnson and his reconstruction policies as sympathetic to Southerners and an obstruction to Radical Republican policies and African American civil rights. Depicts Johnson with jackass ears standing at a road block labeled "veto" and greeting pardoned former Confederates, including an unrepentant white man counterfeiter and two white men ruffians. The ruffians brag about the murder of major-generals, curse the Yankees, and threaten an overthrow of the North and nullification of civil rights after the re-establishment of a Southern presence in the Congress. As Johnson welcomes the Southerners, he orders Secretary of State William Seward, attired as a servant, to pass around whiskey, belittles the barred "Radical Republicans," and boasts about his veto power. Behind the "veto" barricade, carriages driven by Republicans and labeled "Freedman's Bu[reau]," "Civil Rights," and "[Recon]struction," including one attended by an African American man portrayed in racist caricature, stand idle (an allusion to Johnson's vetoes of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the renewal of the Freedman's Bureau). The drivers compare Johnson with Marc Anthony who was "blowing before the People about his great love for the Constitution while conspiring with Caesar for the overthrow of the Republic." In the right, near crates of "Southern Appointments" and "Southern Pardons," John Bull and French dictator Napoleon III stand. Napoleon praises Johnson, proclaiming him "Emperor Americane." Also includes, a shack adorned with the sign "Andy Johnson Tribune of the People" in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, 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.
- Date
- [1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1866-5W [5760.F.111]
- Title
- A case of infectious fever (from "84 South Street, 4 doors from Callowhill Street," Philadelphia) before the New York Board of Health
- Description
- Cartoon criticizing the New York Board of Health's handling of the 1820 yellow fever epidemic based upon August 1820 newspaper accounts about "John C. Williams," a drunk man falsely claiming to be from Philadelphia who was misdiagnosed with the fever. Depicts several doctors and officials from the Board, with handkerchiefs over their mouths, surrounding and discussing the condition of the bed-ridden Williams who is vomiting into a bucket and exclaiming, "drunk, drunk, oh lord." Despite the protestation of the African American housekeeper who holds a tankard and states that he is drunk from "de toast and toddy," the various doctors, including prominent physicians Felix Pascalis, Samuel Latham Mitchill, and President of the Board, David Hosack, discuss his symptoms of "black vomit," "delerium," "a red nose," and "difficulty of speech," as evidence of "yellow fever." Others including New York Post editor William Coleman and Marine Hospital attending physician Joseph Bayley discuss treatments and his being sent to quarantine., Date and place of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America, p. 24., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, 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
- [1820]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - [1820] - 1W [P.2275.24]
- Title
- West India luxury!!
- Description
- Satiric print mocking the decadent state of West Indian plantation society containing five vignettes, one with text, depicting slothful white enslavers being lavishly catered to by Black and multiracial enslaved people. Vignettes include: "A West India Nabob" (i.e., man of wealth) as he lounges on his couch, attired in a wide brimmed hat, surrounded by his entourage of enslaved women; enslaved men being used as a "Portable Boot Jack" by their white man enslaver; the white women enslaver showing "Creolean Patience" as she waits for her enslaved marketing person to be told by her enslaved attendant to pick up her nearby fallen needle; the white women enslaver telling "Quashebah come and take my Head in again" from her open window; and a white man enslaver enjoying "One of the Luxuries" of slavery as enslaved women simultaneously comb his hair, wash his feet, fan him, and serve him goblets of wine., Title from item., Described in David Kunzle's The Early comic strip: Narrative strips and picture stories in the European broad sheet from c. 1450 to 1825 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), p. 374-5., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2000, p. 37-38., Purchase 2000., RVCDC, 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
- April 1808
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political cartoons - 1808-Wes [9455.F]
- Title
- The follies of the age, vive la humbug!!
- Description
- Critique of the social climate of the year of 1855 mocking several of the year's fads, social movements, and major events, many specific to the city of Philadelphia. Depicts several individual scenes occurring on an active street lined by businesses near a river. Depictions include: a scene representing the case of Jane Johnson, an African American woman freedom seeker aided by abolitionist Passmore Williamson; a group of ragged and armed white men filibusters holding the banner "Sam" rushing off to free Central America from European control; a stand where one is "allowed to drink 48 glasses of Lager Beer" where a white man police officer tries to stop a white man drunkard; a group of white women Mormons on a cart headed to "Salt Lake City"; a white man hugging two white women as his angry wife looks on and calls them "Ceresco free-lovers" after the Utopian society that lasted until 1855; two motley groups of local militias drilling; a caricature of the popular French actress Rachel who had an inauspicious debut in Philadelphia; and groups of individuals partaking of "water cures" and "sea baths." In the background the Camden Amboy train crash of 1855 is depicted as well as the destruction by fire of the Philadelphia steamer "John Stevens.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Accessioned 1998., RVCDC, 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.
- Date
- [1855?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1855-Fol [P.9624]
- Title
- The triumph
- Description
- Print predicting the Union's triumph over the Confederacy using an allegory of "Humanitas" (i.e., Humanity) depicted as a white woman holding a child astride an eagle, reaching to save a shackled African American held on the ground by the evil "King Cotton." From a break in the clouds an apparition appears behind "Humanitas," including "Freedom" depicted as a woman wearing a crown of feathers holding a large American flag and a Liberty cap; "Christianity" depicted as a white woman holding a bible; "Justitia" depicted as a white woman holding scales; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; and Benjamin Franklin. The oppressed enslaved person reaches up as "King Cotton," portrayed with an alligator head with a body composed of a bale of cotton with a holster of pistols, raises his hands in horror as the eagle clutches his cloak and shoots lightning bolts at his throne. To his right a column labeled "Lecompton", "Fugitive Slave," and "Missouri Compromise" is set aflame from the lightning. In the left, the "Hydra of Discord" accompanied by a hound "Fugitive Slave Law," a group of white men enslavers, and a Spaniard, who drops a package marked "Cuba $50,000,000," flee from the vision to the sea where a boat of enslaved African American men are docked. Contains eighteen lines of verse from Lord Byron's 1813 poem "The Giaour" below the image., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., Per Reilly, published key to print exists., Copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by M. H. Traubel, in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Penna., Accessioned 1999., 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 - 1862-15 [P.9654]