Visual Materials

“The nigger” in the woodpile

Description: Image of a political cartoon parodying Republican efforts to play down the antislavery plank in their platform during the 1860 elections; editor Horace Greeley stands at left reassuring a man identified as "Young America" who points insistently toward Abraham Lincoln at right; presidential candidate Lincoln sits atop a makeshift construction made of rails marked "Republican Platform" which imprisons a grinning African American man.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1860
Call number: priJLC_POL_002704
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

The great exhibition of 1860

Visual Materials

Image of a political cartoon satirizing the antislavery orientation of the Republican platform during the presidential election of 1860; abolitionist editor Horace Greeley (left) grinds his New York "Tribune" organ as candidate Abraham Lincoln (center, riding on a wooden rail) prances to the organ music while tethered with a cord to Greeley's index finger with his lips padlocked shut; William H. Seward stands in the background wearing a skirt and holding a wailing black infant; at right stand two other New York editors friendly to the Republican cause: Henry J. Raymond of the "New York Times" holding an ax, and James Watson Webb of the New York "Courier and Enquirer" holding out a tambourine.

priJLC_POL_002702

An heir to the throne, or the next Republican candidate

Visual Materials

Image of a political cartoon lampooning Republicans' purported support of African American rights during the presidential campaign of 1860; editor Horace Greeley and presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln (resting his elbow on a rail at right) stand on either side of a deformed African man holding a spear featured at P.T. Barnum's Museum as the "What-is-it" as advertised on the wall in background.

priJLC_POL_002703

Scribner's : April

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine April 1896 issue; man in ancient Greek or Roman armor with spear and shield raised at center; Olympic flame burning atop a pillar in background at right.

priJLC_ART_003132

Limited Brand

Visual Materials

Image of a man and two women waving from a caboose platform as train steams through an orange grove; hand in triangle logo of packing company at lower right.

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The Chap-book : price five cents

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the Chap-book semimonthly periodical; a driver with large whip and top hat rides atop a carriage with a female passenger reading visible through the carriage window; bearded man in a bowler hat holding a sign in foreground at center.

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Man on a stage, Thanksgiving, Fairmead

Manuscripts

Glass plate with a view of a short man in a three piece suit speaking on a makeshift outdoor stage in front of a crowd. There are a few other men and a boy sitting on chairs on the platform, and music stands on the far side of the platform.

mssLattaS, Box 112, Folder 7, Item 1

“The nigger” in the woodpile

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