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Title: Distinguished militia gen'l during an action
Description: 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]

Title: Shadows of the times
Description: Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]

Title: Shadows of the times
Description: Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]

Title: Jeff . Davis in prison
Description: Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., 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: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]

Title: Gallant capture of a ladys wardrobe by the brave troops of Florida
Description: Cartoon concerning the enforcement of the Confiscation Act of 1861 depicting the absurd seizure of a Florida woman's wardrobe to "pay the expenses of the troops." A military officer, possibly Union General Winfield Scott, and his troops, bayonets and swords raised, collect the belligerent, Confederate belle's hoop skirt as they trample an American flag. The lady demands the return of her clothes or threatens to go to Union-occupied Fort Pickens (visible behind her) and "man one of the big guns, and blow [the men] to pieces.", Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-41W [P.9091]

Title: The capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the rebellion
Description: Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865. Davis,disguised as a woman, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering soldiers. Davis holds his hands in the air as one soldier pulls up his dress to reveal trousers below. Mrs. Davis, the lone female figure, begs the soldiers to leave her husband alone as they mockingly comment on his legs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Cameron, John, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-31W [P.8978]

Title: The precarious situation
Description: Cartoon addressing the tenuous position of Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant as the candidate of a party whose radicals support African American civil rights and Reconstruction under military rule. Depicts Grant holding up a knife inscribed "military despotism" as he straddles the "radical platform" rope that is stretched across the "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster). One end of the rope is tied to a rifle labeled "military reconstruction." The other end is held by "Negro supremacy" depicted as an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, barefooted, and attired in torn and worn clothes, who sits upon the tombstone of "Southern Confederacy." He asks in the vernacular, "Whar you be Massa Grant if I lef' go, yah! yah!!" Grant replies, "I'll fight it out if it takes all summer.", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1868-19bW [P.2275.3b]

Title: Yankee volunteers marching into Dixie. "Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Description: Shows a Union officer, sword raised in the air, leading a troop of men attired as the Yankee character Brother Jonathan. Civilians and officers on horseback watch as the "troop" passes. Also shows the Potomac River and Washington skyline, including the Capitol, in the background., Copyrighted by C.F. Morse., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, lithographer
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-1 [P.9177.14]

Title: Why dont 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 and animal skull lie, a coiled snake hisses, and a palmetto tree stands. Scott sits guard in front of several money bags, a cannon, American flag, and barrels of beans, beef, and "Mess Pork.", Copyrighted by F.T.B. [Frank T. Beard?], Name of artist supplied by Weitenkampf., One of four variant designs that was also used on Civil War patriotic envelopes., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of Sumter and Anderson, Scott, Brownlow., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, lithographer
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1861-26 [5794.F.c]

Title: A disloyal British "subject"
Description: Civil War cartoon satirizing the awkward foreign relations between the United States and Great Britain caused by the royal proclamation of neutrality in 1861. The Queen issued the proclamation, which recognized the seceded states as having belligerent rights, in response to the Union blockades of Southern ports and its effect on international maritime trade and privateering. Consequently, the United States feared that Great Britain had acknowledged the Confederacy as an independent government. Shows John Bull and "Pat" on a dock discussing the sailor's enlistment in the Navy. Bull, the royal proclamation under his arm, warns the American that should he enlist with "either of the Belligerents" he would not be protected by Britain if taken as a pirate. "Pat" responds he does not want his protection and that the "stars and stripes" for which he fights will protect him. In the background, an American flag waves near a dock house adorned with a Union recruitment poster and a broadside highlighting the major themes of the royal proclamation including "Strict Neutrality"; "Privateering"; and "Letters of Marque.", Date supplied by Weitenkampf., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War materials., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-1W [5780.F.b]

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: The capture of Jeff Davis His last official act "the adoption of a new rebel uniform." He attempts to "clear his skirts," but finds it "all up in Dixie"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Union soldiers on horseback riding through marshes and chasing down Davis, who flees on foot. The president wields a dagger and wears a woman's dress and cape as well as a "Blockade Runner" boot. Nearby, Mrs. Davis scolds the soldiers "not to provoke the President." In the background, a horse packing a sack of "Confederate Gold" gallops away ( an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury)., Printed above the title: "Don't provoke the President, or he may hurt some of you!", Name of artist supplied by Weitenkampf., Retrospective conversion record; original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Giles, J. L., lithographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-18W [6381.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: 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 peninsular campaign
Description: Civil War cartoon referencing George B. McClellan's failed 1862 peninsular campaign to criticize his cautious military performance as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army and his relationship with financier August Belmont and lawyer Samuel M.L. Barlow, New York Democratic Party leaders with Southern ties. Shows McClellan holding a shovel and sitting backwards on a mule that displays a flag marked "Strategy" on its tails and that Belmont and Barlow desperately try to move past human bones and away from Richmond. He advises the men to "coax" the animal because he does not believe in force and to keep his mule's head to the rear or his plans for "conquering the Rebellion will never be developed." Belmont, with several hats layered on his head and Barlow, a paper printed "Harrisons Landing July 7, 1862" in his pocket, "hold fast" and discuss Belmont's European ties and a letter written by Barlow on McClellan's behalf for the president that will be signed and sent following the general's "change of base.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862 Pen [5793.F.7b]

Title: Southern tombstones
Description: Photographic reproduction of an anti-Confederate political cartoon showing a dilapidated graveyard of tombstones and a mausoleum inscribed with vitriolic epitaphs for predominately prominent military figures from the Confederate States. The fictionalized deceased include Generals P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, John B. Floyd, Robert E. Lee, Leonidas Polk and Henry A. Wise in addition to Vice-President Alexander Stephens. Within the cemetery, an African American man with a bayonet peers out from behind a tombstone near a debris-strewn path marked "secession, mob rule, and nullification." Plantations burn in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Brother - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52o]

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: 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: Enlistment of Sickles brigade
Description: Caustic satire depicting the enlistment by notorious New York Congressman Colonel Daniel Sickles of recruits from offices near New York's crime-ridden Five Points area. The congested scene depicts several men, including African American men, clustered on a city street near a liquor store. In the left, Sickles, unwigged, stands above the crowd, and holds out Bibles in each hand. In the right above the crowd, "Mrs. Higby," wife of a New York clergyman, hands out pipes to the men (an allusion to Sickles's men being given pipes and Bibles for enlisting). A sign near Sickles reads "The Capital in danger. Sickles Brigade to the Rescue!!" A sign near Mrs. Higby reads "Pipes for the noble saviors of their country by Mrs. Higby." The "enlisting" men wear torn, worn, and patched uniforms or street clothes and hold picket signs, guns, and clubs. Within the crowd, a pit bull terrier and a white boy watch the melee, which includes a white man, attired in a uniform and a "Colonel Sickles Brigade" cap, offering an African American man a medal, who scratches his head, next to another African American man, attired in uniform and portrayed in racist caricature, and seated on a barrel. A few years before the war in 1859, Sickles gained notoriety for murdering Philip Barton Key II for having an affair with his wife Teresa Bagioli. He was acquitted based on the first successful use of the insanity defense in the U.S., Inscribed upper left corner: 6., Issued as plate 6 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Tile and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 6 [2990.F.23]

Title: The Declaration of Independence illustrated
Description: 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]

Title: Our bleeding country's infernal revenue stamps ["I say internal ought to be spelt with a T, boss says it hadn't] Printers Devil
Description: Montage criticizing the Revenue Act of 1862, which allowed the first Federal use of revenue stamps. Shows an overlay of stamped correspondence containing a caricature of Abraham Lincoln as an elderly woman wearing a bonnet as the centerpiece. Also contains verse sarcastically comparing the divergent responses of the country to the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Revenue Act. The adhesive revenue stamps were be applied to nearly all Civil War-era documents and several proprietary articles, such as photographs and medicines., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Brewerton - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4i]

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