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]
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]
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]
