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]