Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ... |
Date: | 1878 |
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Description: | Cartoon of "Santa Claus Belated" by a fireplace delivering toys and speaking to a figure representing New Year 1878 saying: "Here we are again." |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Female students practice painting and drawing in an art class session at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher assists in the background. |
Date: | 07 14 1894 |
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Description: | Cartoon depicting "King Debs" a man wearing a crown representing Debs American Railway Union, sitting atop the highway of trade. |
Date: | 08 02 1862 |
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Description: | Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg. |
Date: | 11 01 1879 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu... |
Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
Date: | 11 02 1889 |
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Description: | Engraved view of a government snagboat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
Date: | 01 09 1883 |
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Description: | A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man. |
Date: | 07 10 1880 |
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Description: | Large crowd of people in ter hall for the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ... |
Date: | 04 23 1860 |
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Description: | Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina. |
Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | "Strategy or Change of Base". Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women's clothing hoping to reach the Miss... |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Jefferson Davis in a hoop skirt with a basket and fallen dagger. Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women... |
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