H. Clay
1 print : engraving with stipple on wove paper ; 15.3 x 9.2 cm. (sheet) | Another campaign portrait of Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay. In an oval frame, surrounded by an ornate floral wreath, is a bust-length portrait of Clay. Two books and a quill pen are visible over his shoulder at left; at right, behind a curtain, is the base of a…
The first great Western empire or, the United States of America ... /
United States of America
1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress, on wove paper ; 26 x 37.5 cm. (image) | A patriotic broadside illustrated with emblems of the United States composed chiefly of typographic elements. A large central framework incorporates a small "Temple of Freedom" surmounted by a small Liberty figure, and containing the words "The Federal Constitution." On each side are oval bust portraits of Presidents (left…
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Clark, Jonathan - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Packard, Robert
Our country . . . home industry
1 print : woodcut with letterpress, on wove paper ; 31.7 x 26.1 cm. (image) | An anti-Jackson broadside issued during the 1824 presidential election campaign. The text strongly criticizes Jackson's anti-tariff platform and condemns him and William Coleman as advocates of British interests. The author also praises Henry Clay's support of American home industry. The illustrations symbolically represent Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture. The…
City of New York. Mordecai M. Noah, of No. 57, Franklin-Street, being duly sworn . . .
Parody of a public notice, dated June 20, 1828, reporting an assault on American Zionist, playwright, and editor Mordecai Manuel Noah by Elijah J. Roberts. In the text Noah petitions that Roberts "be bound by recognizance to be of good behavior and keep the peace, and to answer for the above assault, &c. at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace .…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
Am I not a man and a brother?
1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 26.7 x 22.8 cm. | The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s, and appeared…
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Anti-Slavery Office (New York, N.Y,) - American Anti-Slavery Society
[Clay-Frelinghuysen campaign badge]
1 print : woodcut printed in black and blue on silk ; 18.8 x 7.8 cm. (fabric) | An earlier state or proof of number 1844-6, this impression is printed on silk and lacks the "Hoboken Clay Club" overprinting. (The scrolls are left blank.)
The constitutional amendment!
One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also nos. 1866-6, 1866-7, and 1866-8.) Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising blacks. In "The Constitutional Amendment" a group of black men…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
The two platforms
Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
Jackson ticket. Honor and gratitude to the man who has filled the measure of his country's glory--Jefferson
1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4.6 x 3.7 cm. | Prints number 1828-5 through 1828-10 make up a series of election tickets for John Van Laer Mcm.ahon and George H. Steuart, Democratic candidates for Baltimore delegates to the Maryland General Assembly in 1828. Each ticket bears a woodcut emblem and a motto. 1828-5 has a bust portrait of Jackson…
Jackson ticket. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures
1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4.8 x 5.6 cm. | Election ticket with image of anchor, bales, and barrels on a shore, and sailing vessels beyond. Trunk in foreground is labeled "Edes Print" (printer's imprint)?
For Assembly. Luke Tiernan, George R. Richardson.
1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 3.6 cm. | An illustrated election ticket for Luke Tiernan and George R. Richardson, administration candidates for Baltimore delegates to the Maryland General Assembly in 1828. The ticket bears a woodcut emblem of a flexed arm holding a hammer, framed by a wreath of oak leaves.
Some account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson
One of the well-known "coffin hand bills" originated by Republican editor John Binns in his campaign against presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. The six coffins across the top of the broadside represent six militiamen executed under Jackson's orders during the Creek War in 1813. Other coffins represent soldiers and Indians allegedly condemned and executed by Jackson. The broadside's text is a catalog of these and…
Democratic ticket. Stop Van!!!
1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 6.4 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man, possibly Van Buren, bettering another candidate in a race on hogs. The losing rider shouts,…
Democratic ticket. Liberty & equal rights
1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 4 x 6.2 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio's Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a wood-engraving of Van Buren as the "Little Magician," a nickname he acquired for his political adroitness. Dressed in a costume…
Jinnoowine [i.e. "genuine"] Johnson ticket. "Carrying the war into Africa"
1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress ; 9.3 x 6.8 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for the presidential campaign of 1836. Oddly, the ticket lists Ohio's Democratic electors for Van Buren while making a vicious and obscene slur on the wife of his running-mate Richard M. Johnson. It seems to reflect the widespread internal dissatisfaction with the party's choice of Johnson as…
Democratic ticket. Going the whole hog
1 print : wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper ; 5.8 x 3.4 cm. (block) | An illustrated election ticket for Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, listing Ohio Democratic electors for the presidential race of 1836. The ticket is illustrated with a small vignette of a man carrying a hog, and uttering the Democratic campaign slogan "Going the whole Hog." The hog…
The honest statesman, his country's steadfast friend. Harry of the West
1 print : engraving on silk ; 11.2 x 5.8 cm. (image) | Campaign badge produced for the Whig National Convention held at Baltimore in May 1844. A bust-length portrait of Whig candidate Henry Clay appears in an oval, against a backdrop of American flags. The oval is surmounted by arrows, an olive branch, and a shield held by an eagle. Above the eagle,…
The people's welfare my reward
1 print : engraving on silk ; 18.5 x 7.2 cm. (fabric) | Another Whig campaign badge, featuring a bust-length portrait of presidential candidate Henry Clay, with books, drapery, and the base of a column in the background. Above Clay's portrait is the motto: "The Peoples Welfare---My Reward." Below the portrait is a statement by Clay, conveying his campaign themes of support for protectionism…
Federal-Abolition-Whig trap, to catch voters in
1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 10.6 x 11.5 cm. (image), 32.1 x 19.2 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated anti-Whig broadside, designed to combat the "Log Cabin campaign" tactics of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The text warns the people of New Orleans of Whig election propaganda: "People of Louisiana, above you have an accurate representation of the federal "Log-Cabin" Trap, invented…
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…
Bobalition of slavery
1 print : woodcut with letterpress on laid paper ; 12 x 17.5 cm. | Another in the series of "bobalition" broadsides, marking the July 14 celebration of the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. (See no. 1819-2). The text, facetiously dated "Uly 14teenth 18 hundred and 30 tu," consists of a letter to "Captain Ookpate" from "Pomp Peters" and "Cezar Garbo"…
Reply to bobalition of slavery
1 print : woodcut with letterpress on laid paper ; 10.5 x 24 cm. | One of several racist parodies of black American illiteracy, dialect, and manners issued in Boston at various times between 1819 and 1832. Others in the series are "Grand Bobalition or Great Annibersary Fussible" (no. 1821-1), "Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery" (1822, Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania),…
Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill!
Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides, parodying black manners, illiteracy, and dialect. (See no. 1819-2.) The text describes, in the words of a "letter from Phillis to her sister in the country," a nocturnal attack by white Bostonians on black freedmen and their homes. The letter is facetiously dated "Ulie 47th, 180027." The illustration shows a group of white men attacking and stoning…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
Public meeting. A general meeting of the friends of Harrison & reform . . .
1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress, on wove paper ; 12 x 17 cm. (block) | An illustrated broadside announcing a "general meeting of the friends of Harrison & Reform" in Alton (Illinois) on May 9, 1840. Harrison, in farmer's clothes and broad-brimmed hat, stands next to a plough. Behind him is a barrel of hard cider, a log cabin, and another log building…
Slave market of America
A broadside condemning the sale and keeping of slaves in the District of Columbia. The work was issued during the 1835-36 petition campaign, waged by moderate abolitionists led by Theodore Dwight Weld and buttressed by Quaker organizations, to have Congress abolish slavery in the capital. The text contains arguments for abolition and an accounting of atrocities of the system. At the top are two…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - American Anti-Slavery Society - Dorr, William S.
Leaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ...
A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is portrayed as a "rioter." Standing in a burning city, he waves his hat in the air while he steps on the back of a crawling figure. In the background a corpse hangs from a lamppost.…
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Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Nast, Thomas
John Brown exhibiting his hangman
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32.2 x 21.4 cm. (image) | Northern rejoicing at the end of the Civil War often took the form of vengeful if imaginary portrayals of the execution of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Here abolitionist martyr John Brown rises from the grave to confront Davis, although in actuality the latter had nothing to do with Brown's 1859…
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Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Querner, G.
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Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Ringwalt & Brown - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc
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…
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Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Cameron, John - Currier & Ives
[A metamorphosis print on the hanging of Jefferson Davis]
1 print : wood-engraving on wove paper ; 14.7 x 22.9 cm. (printed surface, open) | "Metamorphosis" prints usually consist of folding flaps, each printed with part of a design and which, when opened sequentially, show several consecutive scenes. This example is an imaginary view of the hanging of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. (Davis was actually only imprisoned.) For another of the many popular…
The American ram
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23 x 31.7 cm. (sheet, trimmed to image below) | On the cover of a patriotic song dedicated to Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles Uncle Sam rides a "ram," or ironclad steam vessel, down the Mississippi River. The Library's copy of the music cover was deposited for copyright on August 22, 1863, soon after…
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Tolman & Co. - Greene, H. F. (Henry F.) - Greene, H. F. (Henry F.), Approximately 1828
Wanted a substitute
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25.5 x 22.7 cm (sheet, trimmed to within image below) | An illustrated sheet music cover, which protests the inequities of the draft or proscription system enacted under the Enrollment Act of 1863. The act allowed drafted men to purchase an exemption or to furnish a surrogate or "substitute" in lieu of their own service. The…
The American Marseillaise, or voice of the people
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 24.8 x 20.3 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a Whig campaign song, "The American Marseillaise," composed by Benjamin Cahill to mark the July 4, 1844, Boston Clay rally. In keeping with the title and the occasion of the piece the artist evokes the memory of the Revolution, and draws a parallel between…
Honor to Washington. A national ode
1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper ; 35.6 x 24.8 | An elaborate emblem to the memory of George Washington, illustrating the cover of a song in his honor composed by B. A. Burditt. The song, according to the text, was written "Expressly for the celebration of the 83d Anniversary of American Independence, and performed before the City Authorities of…
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Bufford, John Henry - Oliver Ditson & Co.
Song of the Union by a Pennsylvanian . . .
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32.8 x 25 cm. (image) | A sheet music cover for a song by John M. Crosland, dedicated to President Buchanan. The cover is illustrated with an array of emblems, many of them symbolizing threats to the integrity of the Union. A bust of George Washington dominates the composition, appearing above in an aureole of stars.…
Lincoln quick step
1 print : lithograph printed in buff and black, on wove paper ; 33 x 26 cm. (sheet) | Campaign sheet music for the Lincoln candidacy. The cover illustration features an oval bust portrait of Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln, surrounded by vignettes and motifs recalling his early backwoods career. In a vignette above the portrait the candidate is shown splitting fence rails near a…
Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: "Jeff's war hoops"
1 print : lithograph printed in olive and black on wove paper ; 30 x 19.8 cm. (image) | Another comic version of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's ignominious capture by Union troops in May 1865. (See also "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the C.S.A.," no. 1865-11.) Here Davis, clad as a woman and holding a wooden pail, is discovered by a lone trooper, Benjamin…
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…
Yankee volunteers marching into Dixie
1 print : lithograph printed in colors on wove paper ; 25.9 x 31.5 cm. (image) | Music cover showing a patriotic but fanciful portrayal of Union forces marching on the South at the opening of the Civil War. Led by a blue-uniformed officer with a drawn sword, a large troop of men march forward. All are dressed in the large white top hats,…
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Bufford, John Henry - Morse, C. F. - J.H. Bufford's Lithographic Establishment
Gov. Morton's grand march
1 print : lithograph printed in black and red, on wove paper ; 26.4 x 20.2 cm. (image) | An allegorical design on the cover of a piano-music composition dedicated to the newly elected Democratic governor of Massachusetts, Marcus Morton. The illustration's central motif is based on the state seal, showing an Indian warrior and a star on a shield, draped with the state…
Gov. Wright's grand march
1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper ; 35.6 x 22.7 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover, for a march celebrating the election of Silas Wright as governor of New York. Wright, a popular and influential Democrat and Van Buren ally, was elected in November 1844. The march is dedicated to the new governor by its composer Oliver J.…
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Wade, E. H. - B.W. Thayer & Co. - Oakes, William H.
The three days of May 1844. Columbia mourns her citizens slain
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.2 x 27.4 cm. (sheet) | A memorial to nativist casualties of the violent clashes occurring between anti-foreigner "Native Americans" and Irish-American Catholics in Kensington, Philadelphia, May 6 through 8, 1844. The female figure of Columbia holds a large, billowing American flag near a broken column on which she places a wreath. On the column are…
On to the charge! Inscribed to the memory of Major Ringgold . . .
1 print : lithograph printed in olive and black on wove paper ; 28.9 x 22 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a song memorializing one of the first heroes of the Mexican War, Maj. Samuel Ringgold. Zachary Taylor's innovative gunnery commander was fatally wounded in May 1846 during the battle of Palo Alto. Ringgold's superbly drilled artillery was credited by…
Old Dominion polka
1 print : lithograph printed in black and buff ; 27.3 x 20 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a polka composed by Henry Bellman. Within a circular, ornamental border is an allegorical scene based on the seal of the State of Virginia. A helmeted female figure armed with a spear and sword (probably Minerva) stands on the figure of a…
Sam's coming
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 35.5 x 23 cm. (sheet) | A music cover for a song by William Clifton, "inscribed [i.e., dedicated] to New York Know Nothing leader James W. Barker Esq." The illustration features the youthful "Sam" type who appears in various identities in earlier nativist prints, such as "Uncle Sam, an American Song" (no. 1854-5). The portrait bears…
Viva l'America. Home of the free
1 print : lithograph printed in red, on wove paper ; 35.5 x 24 cm. (sheet, trimmed at left) | An illustrated cover for a patriotic song sheet. The iconography of the illustration, like the song, has militaristic overtones. On a large shield in the center of the composition perches an eagle. Rays of light and several flags radiating from behind. Cannonballs, sabers, a…
America. A national song
1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper ; 36.9 x 28.3 cm. (image) | An allegorical illustration on the cover of a patriotic song, dedicated to the "National Guards of Philadelphia." A pronouncedly decollete Columbia or Liberty figure sits astride a bald eagle which flies over the globe. The eagle clutches lightning bolts and an olive branch in its talons, while…
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Lee & Walker - Dela, Louis - Rosenthal, Lewis N.
Union march
1 print : lithograph printed in five colors, on wove paper ; 28.2 x 20 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a Unionist song by Hans Krummacher, dedicated to Maryland Democratic senator James Alfred Pearce. The cover is adorned with a drawing of the goddess Hebe, the mythological Greek goddess of youth and cup-bearer of Zeus. Here Zeus is present as…
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Ellis, John F. - A. Hoen & Co. - McCaffrey, Henry
See our torn flag still waving
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 36 x 28 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover glorifying the nativist cause, produced shortly after the bloody anti-Catholic riots in Kensington, Philadelphia, of May 1844. The song was composed and arranged by James W. Porter, with words by "a Native," and "respectfully dedicated to the American Republicans of the United States." The American…
Young America polka
1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper ; 32.5 x 25 cm. (sheet) | Sheet music cover for a polka by P. H. Vanderweide, "Dedicated to Capt. Ingraham." Capt. Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham became a popular hero when he interceded with the Turkish government on behalf of Hungarian freedom-fighter Martin Koszta in 1853, following the Hungarian revolt. "Young America" was the name…
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Ditson, Oliver - Skinner & Sperry - Sarony & Co. - Berry, T. S.
The young American schottisch
1 print : lithograph printed in red, blue, yellow, and black ; 34.2 x 25 cm. (sheet) | Sheet music cover for a schottisch (a dance similar to the polka), composed by Francis H. Brown and dedicated to "Miss Mary Leeds of New York." The illustration features the standing figure of "Young America," a young man in coat, waistcoat, and plaid trousers, holding an…
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Sarony & Co. - Ilsley, T. I. - Firth, Pond & Co. - Werlein, P. P. (Philip P.) - Wakelam, William W. - Colburn & Field
Our country's flag
1 print : lithograph printed in olive, red, blue, and black, on wove paper ; 32.5 x 22.5 cm. (image) | An example typical of the rash of patriotic Unionist prints exalting the American flag, that appeared at the outset of the Civil War. (See also nos. 1861-19 through 1861-21.) "Our Country's Flag" is a handsomely drawn illustration appearing on a sheet music cover…
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P.S. Duval & Son - G. Andre & Son - Duval, Peter S. - Queen, James Fuller
The stars and stripes forever
1 print : lithograph printed with color, on wove paper ; 35.7 x 28 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for "The Stars and Stripes Forever," a song dedicated to the United States Volunteers by William J. Lemon. A figure representing the Constitution is shown wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a shield in her left hand and the American flag, topped…
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Lee & Walker - Whately, H. - T. Sinclair's Lith
"Get off the track!" A song for emancipation, sung by The Hutchinsons, . . .
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover for an abolitionist song composed by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. The song is dedicated to antislavery editor Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, "As a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of Human Rights." It is illustrated with an allegory of the triumph of abolitionism. In…
The fugitive's song
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; sheet 35.6 x 23.8 cm. | A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him with their pack of dogs. Ahead, to the right, a signpost points toward New England. The cover's text…
The "contraband" schottische
1 print : lithograph printed in buff and black, on wove paper ; 35.5 x 27.3 cm. (sheet) | A sheet music cover with a comic scene of escaping slaves, produced around the time of Union general Benjamin F. Butler's declaration of such fugitives as contraband of war. (See "The (Fort) Monroe Doctrine," no. 1861-37.) The song was composed by Septimus Winner, and dedicated…
For Seymour, Blair and Liberty
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.5 x 27.5 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated cover for a campaign song written for Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair, Jr. Bust portraits of Seymour and Blair are separated by two cornucopias spilling over with flowers that form a wreath around two clasped hands. Above the portraits are vines, olive branches, and palm…
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Chicago Lithographing Co. - Lyon & Healy
To the united democracy. Seymour, Blair and victory!
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.5 x 27.1 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated cover, dedicated "To The United Democracy," contains three Democratic campaign songs--"Seymour Schottisch," "Blair's Polka," and a "Tammany Grand March." Roundel bust portraits of Horatio Seymour and running mate Francis P. Blair, Jr., are surrounded by foliage and flowers. Above is a shield with the stars and stripes, flanked…
The white man's banner . . . Seymour and Blair's campaign song
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.6 x 27.2 cm. (sheet) | Sheet music cover for a campaign march for Democrats Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair, Jr. The oval bust portraits of the men are framed by oak leaves. The same New Orleans publisher issued another, anti-Grant campaign print, "Let Us Have Pease, Ha, Ha" (no. 1868-12).
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Wehrmann, H. - Blackmar, A. E. (Armand Edward)
The bell and Everett schottisch
1 print : lithograph printed in buff and black, on wove paper ; 36 x 25 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover for campaign music honoring Constitutional Union party candidates John Bell and Edward Everett. The candidates' bust portraits are framed in floral and acanthus tracery. In the upper right a streamer with stars and stripes hangs on the twigs which sprout…
Blake's patriotic log cabin music
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.6 x 21 cm. (image) | A Whig campaign song in praise of William Henry Harrison, illustrated with a rural tableau of the candidate's fabled log cabin on the Ohio River. The cabin stands in a clearing, and flies an American flag. A cider barrel is beside its open door, around which grows a vine. Outside,…
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Blake, George E. - T. Sinclair's Lith
K N quick step dedicated to the Know Nothings
1 print : lithograph printed in brown, blue, red, and yellow on wove paper ; 27.5 x 19 cm. (image) | A sheet music cover illustrated with an ornamental vignette and motifs alluding to the Know Nothing party. In the center a nocturnal procession of men in tricornered hats, holding bayonets and a banner with a skull and crossbones. From the crossbar of the…
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W.C. Peters & Son - A.E. Jones & Co. - Winner & Shuster
The twin sisters liberty and union
1 print : lithograph printed in blue, yellow, and black on wove paper ; 14.6 x 11.2 cm. (image) | A tobacco label produced for C.S. Allen & Company, bearing a patriotic emblem of the mutuality of Liberty and the Union--clearly designed to appeal to Northern sentiments. The two ideals are personified by women. The title notwithstanding, one of them (on the left) appears…
Know nothing soap
1 print : lithograph printed in red, grey, blue, and black on coated paper ; 15.2 x 12.6 cm. (image) | An illustrated advertising label for soap manufactured in Boston, interesting for its imagery and allusion to the popular "Know Nothing" or nativist movement. In the foreground are two American Indians, emblematic of the movement's prejudice against the foreign-born. In the lower right is…
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L.H. Bradford & Co. - Geo. A. Hill & Co.
Ode to liberty. Cordially dedicated to all the human race
1 print : etching on wove paper ; 26.6 x 20 cm. (plate) | A sheet music cover, illustrated with the personification of Liberty in the form of the helmeted goddess Minerva. Her helmet is adorned with a laurel wreath and four large plumes. With her left arm she supports a shield and a spear with liberty cap and holds a scroll with the…
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Oliver Ditson & Co. - Stackpole, Patrick M. - Waters, Horace
Gov. Seabrook's quick step
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.6 x 27 cm. (image) | A sheet music cover illustrated with an allegorical vignette incorporating the arms of the state of South Carolina. The quickstep was composed by Geo. F. Cole for the Washington Light Infantry and dedicated by the troop to the Savannah Republican Blues, Chatham Artillery, Georgia Hussars, and Volunteer Guards and to…
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Cole, Geo. F. (George F.) - William Hall & Son - W. Endicott & Co.
The national union
1 print : lithograph printed in gold and black, with watercolor, on wove paper ; 28 x 24 cm. (image) | A patriotic, illustrated sheet music cover for a song composed by Charles Collins, Jr., and dedicated to Kentucky senator Henry Clay. The work celebrates Clay's efforts to preserve the Union, and was a product of the optimism following passage of the Compromise of…
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William Hall & Son - Lee & Walker - T. Sinclair's Lith
Our country's flag! A new national song
1 print : lithograph on yellow wove paper ; 33.3 x 25 cm. (image) | Cover illustration for a patriotic song composed by George F. Cole, copyrighted in 1836. A young American seaman, holding an American flag with his right hand and raising his hat aloft with his left, stands on a shore with a harbor and fort (possibly Baltimore's Fort McHenry) behind him.…
Ho! For the Kansas plains
1 print : etching on wove paper ; 27 x 19.8 cm. (plate) | An illustrated sheet music cover for an antislavery song, dedicated to abolitionist spokesman Henry Ward Beecher. The illustration features a roundel illustration of the burning of the Free State Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas, by a proslavery mob in May 1856. The roundel is flanked by a standing Indian (left) and…
Our land a national song
1 print : lithograph (chine colle proof) on wove paper ; 21.5 x 18.7 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a song by George W. Babcock (Thomas Comer, composer) and dedicated to Samuel R. Spinney, Esq. The design shows Columbia or American Liberty (center) wearing a gorgon's head on her breast and a Phrygian cap ornamented with stars. She holds a…
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Bufford, John Henry - Oliver Ditson & Co.
Know Nothing Polka dedicated to everybody by nobody
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 27 x 20 cm. (plate) | A sheet music cover illustrated with the American nativist device of an eye in an aureole of light. The watchful eye (a commonplace in Masonic iconography) here symbolizes the Know Nothings' vigilance against "foreign influence" in American politics and government. For an earlier instance of the nativist use of this…
American liberty
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 27 x 20 cm. (plate) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a patriotic song by Freeman Scott. The title appears on a striped shield with laurel and oak branches below and a flag, liberty pole and cap, spears, and bundled fasces (symbolic of unity) behind.
Fillmore Schottisch
1 print : lithograph printed in olive, red, blue, and black, on wove paper ; 32 x 25 cm. (image) | An emblematic illustrated cover for a piece of Millard Fillmore campaign music, composed by Frederic Southgate and copyrighted in 1856. The figure of Columbia or Liberty, surrounded by clouds and an oval frame, stands on a globe and holds a shield and American…
Prize banner polka
1 print : lithograph printed in five colors ; 33 x 25.2 cm. (sheet) | Patently militaristic propaganda for the Union cause in the form of a sheet music cover illustration. Columbia or Liberty stands on the ramparts of a fortress near a cannon pointed across a harbor toward a mountainous landscape. She wears a Phrygian cap and a long gown revealing her left…
Contributor:
Benson, E. A. - Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith
Columbia rules the sea
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 36 x 27.5 cm. (plate) | An emblem of an eagle supported by two American flags, illustrates the sheet music cover for a song by Josiah D. Canning. The eagle's wings are spread and its mouth holds a streamer with the composer's sobriquet "The Peasant Bard of Mass." The Library's copy was deposited for copyright on…
God save American. A grand national ode in honor of the glorious anniversary of American independence . . .
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 33 x 24.5 cm. (image with lettering) | A patriotic device adorning the cover of a song arranged and adapted from "God Save the King." The device is based on the official seal of the United States. An eagle with outstretched wings holds arrows and olive branches. Behind its head is a field of stars, and…
The flag of our union, a national song
1 print : lithograph printed in buff and black, on wove paper ; 33 x 25.6 cm. (sheet) | A patriotic allegory illustrating the cover of sheet music for a song composed by William Vincent Wallace with words by George P. Morris. The theme of the indissoluble union of North and South is evoked here, no doubt in the context of debate over the…
AntiMasonic Convention in Valdimor [on the] corner-stone march
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 32 x 24 cm. (image) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a march dedicated to the Masons. According to the text the march was performed "at the Ceremony of laying the Corner Stone of the Masonic Temple, Boston." The illustration parodies the national convention of the Antimasonic party, held in September 1831 in Baltimore ("Valdimor").…
Contributor:
Johnston, David Claypoole - Bradlee, Charles
Rising of the people. "The drum-tap rattles through the land"
1 print : lithograph printed in five colors ; 31 x 21.5 cm. (image) | A patriotic scene on the cover of a music sheet for a song written by N. P. Beers and composed by M. Colburn. In a middle-class domestic interior a young soldier (center) prepares to go off to war for the Union. He is surrounded by his family and has…
Contributor:
H. Kleber & Bro - Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith - Oliver Ditson & Co. - Shaw, J. P. - Firth, Pond & Co. - Hempsted, H. N. (Henry N.)
Jeff's Race for the Last Ditch!
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27 x 35.5 cm. (sheet) | Another version of Jefferson Davis's capture by Union cavalry. (See "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the Confederacy," no. 1865-11.) The image appears on the cover of a musical piece dedicated to Davis's captor, "Lieut. Col. D. B. [sic] Pritchard, 5th Mich. Cavalry," Davis, in a dress and bonnet and clutching…
Contributor:
G.D. Russell & Company - Carter, F. N. (Franklin N.), Approximately 1827 - Carter, F. N. (Franklin N.)
Down with the traitors serpent flag
1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper ; 34.4 x 25.7 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated unionist sheet music cover, condemning secessionist state South Carolina, and probably issued shortly after its Charleston Convention of December 20, 1860. (See "The Palmetto State Song," no. 1861-2.) Strongly militant in tone, the illustration shows an American soldier standing on the palmetto flag of South…
"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
God and our union
1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.4 x 27.4 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a Unionist song, "God and Our Union," composed by Leopold Meignen with words by Louis Dela. The illustration features four maidens, each representing a section of the United States--North, South, East and West. The maidens stand around an altar and point to a scroll,…
Contributor:
John Church Company - Oliver Ditson & Co. - Schnabel & Finkeldey - Cartwright, H. - Beck & Lawton
Uncle Sam, an American song
1 print : lithograph printed in black and tan-olive, on wove paper ; 35.2 x 26.5 cm. (sheet) | An illustrated sheet music cover for a song "written and sung by Mr. Howard Paul, in his comic & musical entertainment 'Patch Work.'" Uncle Sam here is a young man in a wide-brimmed hat and patchwork jacket. He sits whittling with his jackknife in a…
Contributor:
Lee & Walker - Whately, H. - T. Sinclair's Lith
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:
A.C. Peters & Bro - Ehrgott & Forbriger
Liberty and union
1 print : lithograph on wove paper, printed in olive and black ; 35.5 x 27.9 cm. (image) | An allegorical Unionist sheet music cover for a song by Ohio composer J.T. Wamelink with lyrics by C.B. Barr. Beneath an arch "Union," which rests on two bases "Liberty" and "Law," sits a classical female figure. She holds a staff and Phrygian cap in one…
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…
Let us have pease, ha, ha
1 print : Pen lithograph on wove paper ; 35.3 x 27 cm. (image) | A sheet music cover for a humorous song on the origins of Grant's campaign slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." In actuality, those were the closing words of his letter of May 29, 1868, accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Here, the general is shown seated at a dinner table laden…
Contributor:
Wehrmann, H. - Blackmar, A. E. (Armand Edward)
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