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"Move On!"
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| Title: | "Move On!" |
| Subtitle: | Has the Native American no Rights that the Naturalized American is Bound to Respect? |
| Artist: | Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | April 22, 1871 |
| Caption: | While a diverse group of "naturalized" Americans vote, a Native American is turned away from the polls. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
A Family Quarrel
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| Title: | A Family Quarrel |
| Artist: | Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries |
| Created: | c. 1861-1870 |
| Caption: | Uncle Sam, holding a newspaper saying "United" argues with a women carrying a newspaper saying "States." |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Columbia Awake at Last
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| Title: | Columbia Awake at Last |
| Artist: | Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | June 8, 1861 |
| Caption: | Following the fall of Fort Sumter, Columbia, the representation of the United States, responds violently to the Confederacy trying to tear apart the Constitution. |
| Source: | Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Volume 5 (New York: Harper & Brothers) |
Fate of the Rebel Flag
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| Title: | Fate of the Rebel Flag |
| Artist: | William Bauly |
| Created: | September 1861 |
| Caption: | "Our Heaven Born Banner" is the companion piece to "Fate of the Rebel Flag." William Bauly produced the two Unionist patriotic pieces shortly after the start of the war. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Jeff's Last Shift
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| Title: | Jeff's Last Shift |
| Subtitle: | Capture of Jeff. Davis, May 10th, 1865 |
| Artist: | Joseph E. Baker (artist); John Henry Buford (printer) |
| Created: | c. 1865 |
| Caption: | When Union soldiers captured Jefferson Davis, he was wearing a shawl given to him by his wife for the cold. Throughout the North, newspapers mocked the Confederate president, accusing him of trying to escape dressed as a woman. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Our Heaven Born Banner
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| Title: | Our Heaven Born Banner |
| Artist: | William Bauly |
| Created: | September 1861 |
| Caption: | "Our Heaven Born Banner" is the companion piece to "Fate of the Rebel Flag." William Bauly produced the two Unionist patriotic pieces shortly after the start of the war. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Scott's Great Snake
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| Title: | Scott's Great Snake |
| Artist: | J.B. Elliot |
| Created: | 1861 |
| Caption: | Cartoon map of General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan," intended to squeeze the Confederacy into surrender. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Copperhead Party
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| Title: | The Copperhead Party |
| Subtitle: | In Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace! |
| Created: | February 28, 1863 |
| Caption: | This cartoon, printed in Harper's Weekly, shows Columbia fighting three Copperhead Democrats. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Cruel Uncle and the Vetoed Babes in the Wood
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| Title: | The Cruel Uncle and the Vetoed Babes in the Wood |
| Artist: | Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper |
| Created: | May 12, 1866 |
| Caption: | This cartoon shows President Andrew Johnson dragging two children, "Civil Rights" and "Bureau" into the Veto Wood. The sketch is a reference to Johnson's 1866 vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau extension and the Civil Rights Act. The Republicans in Congress passed both bills over the President's veto. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Food Question Down South
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| Title: | The Food Question Down South |
| Created: | May 9, 1863 |
| Caption: | This cartoon, printed in Harper's Weekly, made fun of the difficulty the Confederacy had in obtaining supplies. An accompanying caption read: Jeff Davis: "See! see! the beautiful Boots just come to me from the dear ladies of Baltimore!" Beauregard: "Ha! Boots? Boots? When shall we eat them? Now?" |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Man with the (Carpet) Bags
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| Title: | The Man with the (Carpet) Bags |
| Artist: | Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | November 9, 1872 |
| Caption: | In this cartoon, Thomas Nast villifies Republican Carl Schurz as a Northern "carpetbagger" heading South. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Return Home
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| Title: | The Return Home |
| Created: | 1865 |
| Caption: | This cartoon, printed in Harper's Weekly, included the accompanying caption: Columbia: "Tell me, Soldier, did you not pass a Wayward Sister of mine on the road?" Returning Soldier: "I did. I fetched her a good part of the way myself; but she says she don't require my services any more now; and here she comes over the hill." |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Union As It Was
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| Title: | The Union As It Was |
| Subtitle: | The Lost Cause, Worse Than Slavery |
| Artist: | Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | 1874 |
| Caption: | In this cartoon, a member of the White League and the KKK shake hands. Below them are images of violence against African Americans. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
This is a White Man's Government
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| Title: | This is a White Man's Government |
| Subtitle: | "We Regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as Usurpations, and Unconstitutional, Revolutionary, and Void." - Democratic Platform |
| Artist: | Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | 1868 |
| Caption: | This political cartoon shows three men, an Irishman with a club ("a vote"), a Southerner holding a knife ("the lost cause"), and a wealthy man holding a wallet ("capital for votes"), pinning an African American soldier to the ground. In the background African Americans have been attacked. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Union Soldiers in Andersonville Prison
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| Title: | Union Soldiers in Andersonville Prison |
| Subtitle: | The Rebel Leader, Jeff Davis, at Fortress Monroe |
| Artist: | Thomas Nast |
| Created: | 1865 |
| Caption: | Comparison of the treatment of Union prisoners at the notorious Andersonville prison to the treatment of Jefferson Davis, imprisoned at Fortress Monroe. The treatment of Davis is likely exaggerated in this cartoon. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Whew! That Old Hen, Jeff Davis, has been trying to hatch a Rotten Egg
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| Title: | Whew! That Old Hen, Jeff Davis, has been trying to hatch a Rotten Egg |
| Artist: | Harper's Weekly |
| Created: | May 17, 1862 |
| Caption: | Union soldiers break open Jefferson Davis's "Secession Egg" in his Richmond nest. The content has gone rotten. |
| Source: | Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Volume 6 (New York: Harper & Brothers) |
