Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Why dont you take it? 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25 x 40 cm. (image) | In February 1861 Washington was alarmed by rumors that secessionists planned to seize the city and make it the capital of the Confederacy. The print may have been produced in that context, or during Lincoln's call to arms and rather anxious military build-up of the capital in April. Here, General...
    • Contributor: Vent, Starr & Co. - Beard, Frank T.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The true peace commissioners : Sheridan. Grant. Lee. Davis. Farragut. Sherman An angered response to false Confederate peace overtures and to the push for reconciliation with the South advanced by the Peace Democrats in 1864. (See also "The Sportsman Upset by the Recoil of His Own Gun," no. 1864-32.) Confederate general Robert E. Lee and president Jefferson Davis (center) stand back-to-back trying to ward off an attack by Northern officers (from left to right) Philip...
    • Contributor: Currier & Ives - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Cameron, John
    • Date: 1864
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dixie's nurse 1 print : lithograph printed in black and brown-olive, on wove paper ; 30.5 x 17.5 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a comic song, published "for the benefit of the Soldiers Home Fair, Milwaukee, Wis." The cover is adorned with a caricature of an obese Britannia, seated and holding a trident and shield. Printed in almost monochromatic neutral tones, the...
    • Contributor: Lee & Walker
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    "Jeff wants to get away" 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.5 x 26.5 cm.(image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for an anti-Confederate comic song. Confederate president Jefferson Davis stands on a bale of cotton and asks John C. Breckinridge, former U.S. Vice President and fellow secessionist, to "Black Me." Breckinridge, in military uniform, complies and begins to paint Davis's face with blacking. Around Breckinridge's feet...
    • Contributor: Endres & Compton - Bussett, Eunice - McClean, Alexander
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The flag with thirty four stars 1 print : lithograph printed in five colors on wove paper ; 35.6 x 27.5 cm. (sheet) | A patriotic sheet music cover for a Unionist song written by Gen. W. H. Hayward, composed and arranged by Prof. C. S. Root, and dedicated to Wilson G. Horner, Esq. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and carrying an American flag and a sword, rides on the...
    • Contributor: Ehrgott & Forbriger - A.C. Peters & Bro
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Our national Confederate anthem 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 31 x 19.5 cm. (image) | One of the rare illustrated sheet music covers issued under the Confederacy. Published by the composer in Richmond, this edition features a Confederate soldier who kneels on one knee holding a large flag with the words, "God save the South." A cavalryman, he wears high boots and a plumed hat...
    • Contributor: Coeniel, C. T. De. - Crehen, E.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The conquered banner 1 print : lithograph printed in black, red, blue, and buff on wove paper ; 33.2 x 25.5 cm. (sheet) | A sheet music cover for a postwar song lamenting the fall of the Confederacy. A ragged Confederate flag stands draped over an abandoned cannon, which sits in a landscape overgrown with grass and weeds. Almost hidden in the grass is the stock of...
    • Contributor: Blackmar, A. E. (Armand Edward) - Feusier, Hoyle & Co.
    • Date: 1866-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession" 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32.6 x 28 cm. (image) | A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a gallows, draped in the Confederate flag and wearing on his head a misshapen Phrygian cap. Under him...
    • Contributor: Currier & Ives
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Ye conference. "Not any we thank you Mr. Davis" 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32.9 x 43.9 cm. (image) | Jefferson Davis's diplomatic overtures to France and Great Britain fail in an imaginary scene at court. Davis (right) bows before French ruler Napoleon III, extending toward him a tray of "bonds." Davis holds a plate of cotton and, under his arm, a batch of papers. His pockets overflow with more...
    • Contributor: Ehrgott & Forbriger
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 29.4 x 38.5 cm. (image) | Northern fears of European intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South are manifest here.Uncle Sam, in the form of a bearded Union soldier (closely resembling Abraham Lincoln), unceremoniously routs John Bull from a fenced garden where the latter has been poaching. Grabbing him by the scruff of...
    • Contributor: Stauch, Edward - Stauch, Edward, Approximately 1830
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Arms of ye Confederacie 1 print : engraving on off-white card stock ; 9.6 x 11.8 cm. (image) | A small card bearing a vitriolic indictment of the Confederacy. The artist particularly attacks the the institution of slavery, the foundation of Southern economy. A large shield is flanked by two figures: a planter (left) and a slave. The planter wears spurs and a broad-brimmed hat and smokes a...
    • Contributor: Heap, Gwinn Harris - Tilley, H. H.
    • Date: 1862-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The pending conflict 1 print : lithograph printed in black and beige, with letterpress, on wove paper ; 31 x 23.8 cm. (image) | One of three similar prints published by Oliver Evans Woods, reflecting grave northern fears of British and French interference on behalf of the Confederacy in the Civil War. (See also "The Pending Conflict" and "The Pending Contest," nos. 1864-2 and 1864-3.) The controversy...
    • Contributor: Woods, Oliver Evans
    • Date: 1863-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The pending conflict 1 print : lithograph with letterpress, on wove paper ; 34.1 x 31.3 cm. (image) | A later, altered version of "The Pending Conflict" (no. 1863-10). Albeit more optimistic from the Northern point of view than its earlier couterpart, this version is equally critical of European abetment of the Confederate war effort and of the anti-Lincoln or pacifist movement in the North. The artist...
    • Contributor: Woods, Oliver Evans - Herline & Hensel
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Platforms illustrated 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25.2 x 36.7 (image) | The August 1864 Democratic national convention in Chicago is unfavorably compared to the Republican convention in Baltimore in June of the same year. The artist is especially critical of prominent New York Peace Democrats Horatio Seymour and Fernando Wood. The party's espousal of a truce with the South is presented here...
    • Contributor: Louis Prang & Co.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Political caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the November smash-up 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 40.3 x 49.4 (image) | Lincoln's support of abolition is portrayed here as a liability in his race to the White House against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan. At top a smoothly run train "Union" heads straight for the White House. The engine is labeled "Democracy" and the first car, in which McClellan stands in the...
    • Contributor: G.W. Bromley & Co.
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The pending contest. Although all Copperheads call themselves Democrats, nevertheless, all Democrats are not Copperheads 1 print : lithograph with letterpress, on wove paper ; 41.9 x 31.9 cm. (image) | A variant of "The Pending Conflict" (no. 1863-10), evidently issued at about the same time (and deposited for copyright on the same date). Significant alterations here include: the "Neutrality" band has been removed from around the clubs held by John Bull; Napoleon III now seems to dance, with...
    • Contributor: Woods, Oliver Evans - Herline & Hensel
    • Date: 1864-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    A "so called president" in petticoats 1 print : lithograph.
    • Contributor: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The true story of the capture of Jeff. Davis 1 print : lithograph.
    • Contributor: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Jeff. Davis in prison 1 print : lithograph ; 31 x 41 cm.
    • Contributor: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The first of May 1865 of Genl. Movingday in Richmond Va. 1 print : color lithograph.
    • Contributor: Kimmel & Forster
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty." Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 33 x 40 cm. (image) | A vindictive Northern fantasy on the aftermath of the Civil War. Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and a torn flag in the other. (For Davis's costume, see "The Chas-ed "Old Lady"...
    • Contributor: Porah, Charles - Zac, Burgoo
    • Date: 1865-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    What I know about raising the devil 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 20.8 x 37.9 cm. (image) | Horace Greeley's famous and widely ridiculed 1871 pamphlet "What I Know of Farming" provided the pretext for the title here. With the tail and cloven hoof of a devil Greeley (center) leads a small band of Liberal Republicans in pursuit of incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant and his supporters. Greeley...
    • Contributor: Toulmin, Morton - Fizzle Gig
    • Date: 1872-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Jeff Davis, on his own platform, or the last "act of secession" Another state of no. 1861-23, with the addition of a skull and crossbones drawn on Davis's chest.
    • Contributor: Currier & Ives - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The fox without a tail 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25 x 34.2 cm. (image) | A satire on South Carolina's role as instigator of secessionism in the South. The artist may be lampooning the convention of seceded states which assembled at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861. The prominent leaders of the Confederate states are portrayed as foxes. The chief fox (the one "without a...
    • Contributor: Magee, John L.
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27 x 41 cm. (image) | The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five states from the lower South, following the lead of South Carolina, which had formally declared its independence a month...
    • Contributor: Currier & Ives
    • Date: 1861-01-01