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 Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Currier & Ives
Date
1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons - 1861-50W [P.9314.1]
Cartoon evoking the Declaration of Independence to promote the emancipation from enslavement. Depicts rays of light representing God above a soaring American eagle that clutches olive and oak branches and two American flags labelled "All Men are Created Equal" and "Stand by the Declaration." Suspended from the flags is a large basket in which an African American man and a white man are seated. The African American man drops his broken shackles out of the basket as the abolitionist proclaims "Break Every Yoke; Let the Oppressed Go Free" to a large crowd of men, women, and children cheering below. Among the crowd is a white man Union soldier; a white newsboy selling the "Herald," an abolition newspaper; and a free African American man. Verses of text appear atop the rays of light and beside the basket espousing the religious, moral, and historical justifications for emancipation., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Purchase 1968., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Dominique C. Fabronius was a respected Belgian born lithographer, watercolorist, and portraitist who worked in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York.
Creator
Fabronius, Dominique, artist
Date
1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-41 [7700.F]
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.]
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]
