Caricature of a sailor with a ring of cannons around his waist reading "The Cheese" to represent the Union ironclad, the Monitor, mocked by the Confederates as a "cheese-box." The battle between the smaller Monitor and the larger Confederate ironclad, the Virginia, (i.e., Merrimac) ended in a stalemate in March 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War era posters., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons [1862] - Ha [(6)5777.F.32b]
Racist campaign poster in support of Democratic candidate Heister Clymer published during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866 attacking his Republican opponent James White Geary and the Republican Congress's support of the Freedmen's Bureau. Depicts an oversize figure of an African American free man, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, lazing on his back under the quote in the vernacular, "Whar is de use for me to work as long as day make dese appropriations." The figure is surrounded by imagery, including scenes, quotes, and a table, condemning the legislature's financial support of African Americans. Scenes include a white man chopping wood as "the white man must work to keep his children and pay his taxes"; a white man farmer plowing his field for "in the sweat of thy face thou eat thy bread"; and a view of a building similar to the Capitol under the heading "Freedman's Bureau! Negro Estimate of Freedom!" The building is inscribed with divisive words and terms including: "Freedom and No Work"; "Goods to eat & drink. Uncle Sam will have to keep me"; "Idleness"; "White Women"; "Apathy" and a list of foods stereotyped as part of the African American diet. Also includes a table listing appropriations issued by Congress in support of the Freedman's Bureau; a quote indicating the inequity of Civil War veteran's bounties in favor of African Americans; and a statement disapproving of the cost of the Freedman's Bureau to the "Tax-payers of the Nation.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Readex July 2013 update: This political cartoon is now housed in the Print Room; formerly Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3815., 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
[1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - 1866-6 [(6)5777.F.79]
Racist poster attacking radical Republican support of African American suffrage by comparing the platforms of Democratic candidate and white supremacist Heister Clymer and radical Republican candidate John White Geary during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. Depicts the side-by-side bust portraits of a white man titled "Clymer's Platform is for the White Man" and an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, titled "Geary's Platform is for the Negro." Contains three lines of text above the image which reference the other "Radical" Republican candidates who support "Negro Suffrage" and two lines below which declares "Read the Platforms. Congress says, the Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished.", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., RVCDC, Purchase 1998., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1866-8 [9387.F]
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.35b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, saber drawn, attacking a Confederate soldier."
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Southwark (1)5777.F.24c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an officer standing, left arm raised, telescope in right hand."
Sample image scanned from: Sm# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.59d, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "Liberty, left arm raised, holding the flag in her right hand."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.45c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an encampment, a cannon, and the digging of trenches."
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.24g, Recruiting poster illustration depicting an "eagle holding a small shield upright in his talons."
Sample image scanned from: 3# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.7, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a regimental parade, with Sargeant major leading, left arm raised, four drummer boys, and one mounted officer."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.24a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "the U.S. flag, surmounting the globe, with the legend: Our country."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.24, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a mounted, Union cavalry soldier, saber drawn, attacking a mounted confederate cavalry soldier."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.36d, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen Confederate soldier in battle."
Creator
Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engineer., creator
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.62b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "[x] soldiers, in groups of three, standing at attention (left or right facing)."
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Southwark (1)5777.F.24c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "three people, one holding a U.S. flag, with the banner: mottos vary." In this poster the banner reads: "the Union and the Constitution!" Banner text varies. Other examples include, "Attention!" and "Hurra for Houtton & Brother."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.32, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "four horses, two with riders, pulling a cannon with three soldiers seated."
Creator
Rogers, E. (Edward), b. 1831 or 2, engraver., creator
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.57c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "George Washington holding the U.S. flag, beneath the legend: My country." Various date ranges included in some posters.
Creator
Hinckley, Cornelius T., b. ca. 1820, engraver., creator
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.30b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with a blank banner, perched on a horn."
Sample image scanned from: Sm# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6b, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a flag-draped drum, with eight flags behind."
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 German (2)5777.F.7a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a shield, with the banner: mottos vary." The motto on this poster reads: "When duty calls, 'tis ours to obey." Other examples include, "No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth"; "The Union now and forever"; "Not for ourselves, but for our country." See woodcut15 for a similar image.
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6e, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a shield with the banner: mottos vary." The motto in this poster is: "The Union, it shall be preserved!" Other examples include, "No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth."; "Obey the call of your country!"; "Fall in and keep step to the music of the Union."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.41a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with a shield on a chain around his neck, beneath the motto: E. pluribus unum."
Sample image scanned from: # Am 1863 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.57c, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle with the banner: mottos vary" Banner is blank in this example, but text varies on each poster. Examples include "Don't give up the ship"; "Irish Volunteers!"; "When duty calls, 'tis ours to obey."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.8a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "an eagle on a boat-like shield on the ocean, with the banner: Liberty and Union, now and forever."
Sample image scanned from: 2# Am 1861 Conti (4)5777.F.36a, Recruiting poster illustration depicting "a cavalry charge, with two buildings in the background."
Receipt containing an image showing a laborer using a pitch fork to load a "John Hays & Co. Ridge White Ash Coal" rail car. A mound of coal on which a pitch fork rests is visible on one end of the car. The head of a horse is partially visible behind the opposite end of the car., Title from text on verso., Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. G. Whitney on September 4, 1877 for "2000 pounds Carbon Ridge, Lump.", Contains punched whole in upper right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.174]
