Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingDemocratic 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...- Date: 1836
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe 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,...- Contributor: Bannerman, William W.
- Date: 1844
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe 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...- Date: 1844
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Photo, Print, DrawingFederal-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...- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, DrawingWhy 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
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Photo, Print, DrawingBobalition 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"...- Date: 1832
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Photo, Print, DrawingReply 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),...- Date: 1819
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Photo, Print, DrawingGrand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible" 1 print : woodcut with letterpress, on laid paper ; 12 x 17.5 cm. | Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The text, facetiously dated "Bosson, Uly 14, 18021" consists of a letter of instruction from "Cesar Crappo" to...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1821
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Photo, Print, DrawingGrand celebrashun ob de bobalition ob African slaver!!! 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on laid paper ; 11.5 x 19 cm. | Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) This one is facetiously dated "Uly 14, 1825, 6 month and little more beside," suggesting it appeared in 1825 or 1826. It is illustrated with silhouette figures of black men,...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1825
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Photo, Print, DrawingDreadful 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...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1827
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Photo, Print, DrawingPublic 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...- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, DrawingSlave market of America 1 print : letterpress with nine wood-engravings ; 64.2 x 48.5 cm (sheet) | 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...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - American Anti-Slavery Society - Dorr, William S. - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1836
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & ... 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 45.5 x 58.1 cm. (image) | One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe great political car and last load of patriots? Dorr, Jackson, Simmons and Arnold! "We stoop to conquer," "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." I have republished the following ... 1 print : woodcut with letterpress, on wove paper ; 59.2 x 49 cm. (sheet) | A virulent attack on the four conservative Rhode Island legislators who broke with the Law and Order Party to support a Democratic movement to free imprisoned radical Thomas Wilson Dorr. (On the Dorrite Rebellion see also "Trouble in the Spartan Ranks, Tyrants Prostrate Liberty Triumphant," and "The Four...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Whipple, John - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1845
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe four traitors, who most infamously sold themselves to the Dorrites for office and political power 1 print : woodcut with letterpress, on wove paper ; 27 x 21 cm. (printing) | An illustrated broadside reviling four Rhode Island Whigs who broke party ranks to support a popular movement to free imprisoned radical Thomas Wilson Dorr. (On the Dorr Rebellion see also "Trouble in the Spartan Ranks, Tyrants Prostrate Liberty Triumphant," and "The Great Political Car and Last Load of...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1845
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Photo, Print, DrawingClay Frelinghuysen Markle Stewart 1 print : woodcut printed in red, white, and black on silk ; 35.5 x 42 cm. (fabric) | Print shows a Whig campaign banner composed of a pattern of alternating red and white stripes reminiscent of the American flag. On each of the four white stripes appears the name of a Whig candidate for the 1844 election. These include Henry Clay, vice-presidential hopeful...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1844
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Photo, Print, DrawingLeaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ... 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 89.7 x 54 cm (sheet) | 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...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Nast, Thomas
- Date: 1868
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Photo, Print, DrawingOur country's hope Harrison & reform 4th May 1840. 1 badge : etching printed on white satin ribbon ; 22.7 x 7.8 cm. (fabric) | A Whig campaign ribbon, produced for the Young Men's National Convention held in Baltimore in May. At the top in a corona of stars is a fasces. Below it an eagle holds a streamer with the words "Union for the Sake of the Union" above a bust portrait...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc - Horton, John S.
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, DrawingFor President James K. Polk, of Tennessee. For Vice President: George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania. For electors of President and Vice President / 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; 14.5 x 5 cm. (sheet) | A Democratic election ticket for the 1844 presidential campaign, issued sometime between May 29, when Polk received the Democratic nomination, and the November canvass. The ticket names the party's eight electors for the state of Maryland and is illustrated with the device of an American flag on a...- Contributor: Baltimore (Md.) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1844
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Photo, Print, DrawingJohn 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...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Querner, G.
- Date: 1865
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Photo, Print, DrawingView of transparency in front of headquarters of Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, in commemoration of emancipation in Maryland, November 1, 1864. 1 print (2 l.) : wood-engraving printed in four colors, with letterpress ; 36 x 22 cm. (image) | A representation of an enormous illuminated transparency displayed on thefacade of the federal recruiting office for Negro troops on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia on November 1, 1864. The display celebrated the emancipationof slaves in Maryland through the state's new constitution, adopted onOctober 13 of the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Ringwalt & Brown
- Date: 1864
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe true peace commissioners : Sheridan. Grant. Lee. Davis. Farragut. Sherman. 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 25.1 x 36.8 cm. (image) | 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...- 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
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Photo, Print, DrawingNew England Convention Bunker Hill September 10th 1840. 1 white silk badge : etching and engraving, printed on silk ; 16.5 x 7.6 cm. (fabric) | Campaign badge produced for the New England Whig Convention in Boston, September 10-11, 1840. An aureole of light surrounds an oval bust portrait of Harrison, ringed by medallions of the arms of the states of (clockwise from upper left) Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1840
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Photo, Print, Drawing[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...- Date: 1865
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt. 1 print : engraving with watercolor, on laid paper ; 25.8 x 33.4 cm. (plate) | A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, on the signal of an officer, fire into a crowd of civilians at left....- Contributor: Revere, Paul
- Date: 1770