Reproduction of a drawing showing a Zouave and infantryman drinking a beer together., Publisher's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
J. Gurney & Son
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53k]
Caricature of New York mayor and Peace Democrat (i.e. Copperhead) Fernando Wood. Shows Wood with devil wings and horns, seated on a rock, with a snake labeled "Copperhead" wrapped around his ankle., Publisher's imprint with logo printed on verso., The Anthony firm, established in 1859, operated as a partnership from 501 Broadway between 1863 and 1871.
Creator
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Anthony - Caricatures & cartoons [P.9758.7]
Reproduction of a George Gardner Fish allegorical painting celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) originally photographed by Boston photographer J. P. Soule. Depicts the white female figure Columbia holding out the Emancipation Proclamation and standing between a kneeling enslaved African American man and woman (attired in a head wrap). The bare-chested man holds up the pole of an American flag, while the woman drapes the flag around her naked body. Columbia, attired in a tiara and drapey gown, also holds a bunch of sprigs of laurel, as well as stands on a whip. A partial view of a wagon wheel is visible in the left background., Title from item., Artist and photographer from copy in the collections of the Library of Congress. LC copy "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John Sowle [sic], in clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.", George Gardner Fish was a Nantucket portrait painter who specialized in pastels. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design between 1858 and 1863., John P. Soule was a Boston photographer who also published stereographs and cartes de visite. He served in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at the end of the Civil War., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [P.2014.22]
Reproduction of a drawing showing a Union infantryman staring into the bottom of an empty can he has raised into the air., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53e]
Reproduction of a racist satiric drawing showing an elderly African American, holding an umbrella, while seated next to a bundle of his belongings. An African American couple with their baby are visible in the background. During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared slaves contraband of war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52k]
Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln, attired in a smock adorned with stars, feeding "Conscription" medicine from a bowl to a scrawny Irishman who has his mouth wide open. An advertisement for "Dr. Lincoln's Ready Relief Pills" adorns the wall behind them., 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
J. Hall & Co.
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.13]
Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln feeding a bottle of the "Black Draft" to a haggard looking man who sits with his feet in a tub. The bottle of "Black Draft" contains figures of African Americans., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Date
ca. 1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Bispham - Caricatures and cartoon [5792.F.4g]
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]
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]
Satiric carte de visite of a reproduction of a drawing of the New York island fort opposite Fort Hamilton used a a prison during the Civil War. Includes a boat of prisoners being rowed to the facility. The fort, completed circa 1818, was the first Northern location to receive prisoners of war in July 1861. Fort was razed in 1960., Copyright information partially legible., 5779.F.10c is unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Events, & Places., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5779.F.6b & 10c]
Reproduction of a drawing mocking the Confederate military and Gen. Q.A. Gillmore's bombardment of Charleston, S.C. in August 1863. Shows a "450 lb" cannon ball, shot from a cannon on the bank of Morris Island, swiping past the backside of a Confederate officer. Also shows Fort Sumter in the background, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - Miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51e]
Reproduction of a satiric drawing criticizing Gen. Q.A. Gillmore's use of greek fire, i.e., an incendiary shell to bombard Charleston, S.C., a civilian center, in August 1863. Shows Gillmore addressing a soldier holding a protest banner near the cannon at the marsh battery, "Swamp Angel," on Morris Island. The banner reads "Protest of the use of Greek Fire. It is unchristian, uncivilized, and uncomfortable.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - Miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51g]
Reproduction of a drawing showing the officer, his hat flown off, trampling on a map marked "C.S.A." Also shows soldiers fleeing in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53h]
Reproduction of a comic drawing showing an Army recruiter confronting a thin man in gentleman's attire in front of a recruitment camp., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricautres & cartoons [5780.F.51o]
Reproduction of a satiric drawing alluding to the "old soger," General Winfield Scott, the retired first commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Shows a huge smoking cigar bud, i.e., an "old soger," propped up in the middle of "Camp Scott." An officer looks on in disbelief., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52g]
Reproduction of a satiric drawing showing an alligator in a marsh in the moonlight., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52n]
Views showing the exterior and interior of the church built 1809 partially after the designs of Frederick Graff at 511-523 Race Street. Depicts the front elevation of the building; the pulpit designed by Frederick Graff and sculpted by William Rush; pews; and partial views of galleries. Views also include a clergymen, presumably Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, in his clerical robes standing at the pulpit and a man, possibly a church elder, seated near the altar. Also contains reproductions of a drawing of the "Interior of St. John's Church, North View." Interior of the church altered 1847-1848 after the designs of William Johnston., Nine of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains five stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including two with printed titles, one [1322.F.22c], hand-colored, and one accompanied by a publisher's label describing the building and history of the congregation. Also contains an unmounted carte de visite print, a carte de visite, an unmounted stereographic print, and two albumens mounted on cardboard, hand-colored, including one inscribed: From John A. McAllister., (4)1322.F.23b and P.8910.12 are duplicates., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator
McAllister & Brother
Date
March 1861, c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.22a-d;(4)1322.F.23a; (4)1322.F.92e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.23b; P.8910.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. [(4)1322.F.22bx & 23bx]
