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Running the “machine"

Description: Image of a political cartoon portraying the Lincoln administration as inept; Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden cranks out greenbacks from "Chase's Patent Greenback Mill" at left; seated at a table (clockwise from top left) are secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, president Abraham Lincoln, secretary of state William H. Seward, Navy secretary Gideon Welles, and two unidentified contractors; at left a messenger hands an envelope to Stanton, who orders a message be sent to Union general John A. Dix immediately; Lincoln laughs at center; Seward, with a bell in one hand, hands an envelope "Fort Lafayette" to a young officer or cadet; Welles ineptly works out a problem at right; two contractors ask for more greenbacks at bottom center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1864
Call number: priJLC_POL_002705
Creator: Last, Jay T

President Lincoln & cabinet

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Image of a set of portraits of United States president Abraham Lincoln and the six men of his cabinet in a Union shield frame with stars and stripes: Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior C.B. Smith, and Attorney General Edward Bates.

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Hon. William H. Seward. Secretary of State

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Image of a full-length portrait of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward during the American Civil War sitting at a table and holding a pen; map of the United States on back wall and view out window of soldiers marching in formation.

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Hon. Gideon Welles. Secretary of the U.S. Navy

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Image of a full-length portrait of United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles during the American Civil War sitting at a table and holding a pen; map of the United States on back wall and view out window of soldiers marching in formation.

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E. M. Stanton. Sec. War

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Image of a full-length portrait of United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton during the American Civil War sitting in at a table and holding a pen; map of the United States on back wall and view out window of soldiers marching in formation.

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The great exhibition of 1860

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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.

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