| Quantity: | 107 cartoons (11 folders) |
|---|---|
| Access: | Open to research |
| Administrative Note: | Several items are missing from the collection as noted in the inventory. Ten items were recovered in 2008 by the Office of New York State Attorney General. These ten items are noted by an asterisk (*) in the item list. |
| Acquisition: | Source unrecorded; accessioned May 1985 |
| Processed By: | Paul Mercer, Senior Librarian, October 2005 |
While most of the editorial cartoons in this collection relate to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, post-war reconstruction, and national political themes of that era, such as electoral politics, slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation, there is a small group concerning political themes from the 1830s.
Few of the cartoons are signed. Of these, 17 are by Thomas Nast, and appear to have been clipped from issues of Harper's Weekly or similar contemporary news magazines. Thirty-seven of the cartoons in the collection were issued as prints by Currier & Ives.
| Folder | Item | Title | Date | Artist | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Key-Note of the Campaign | 1868(?) | Thomas Nast | |
| 1 | 2 | Satan Don't Get Thee Behind Me!" – Any Thing to Get Possession | Thomas Nast | ||
| 1 | 3 | Clasping Hands Over the Bloodless (Sar)c(h)asm | Thomas Nast | ||
| 1 | 4 | Apollo Amusing the Gods | Thomas Nast | ||
| 1 | 5 | "The Pirates" Under False Colors. – Can They Capture the Ship of State? | Thomas Nast | ||
| 1 | 6 | Grand Masquerade Ball Given by Mr. Maretzek at the Academy of Music | 1866 | Thomas Nast | |
| 1 | 7 | That "Tidal Wave" – "We Are on the Home Stretch" | 1868(?) | Thomas Nast | |
| 1 | 8 | Ulysses the Giant Killer | |||
| 1 | 9 | *The Old General Ready for a "Movement" | |||
| 1 | 10 | The Great American Tanner – MISSING January 2008 | 1868 | Thomas Worth | Currier & Ives |
| 2 | 11 | *The Precarious Situation | |||
| 2 | 12 | The Radical Party On A Heavy Grade – MISSING January 2008 | 1868 | J.M.J. | Currier & Ives |
| 2 | 13 | Re-Construction or A "White Man's Government – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 2 | 14 | *Republican Platform, or The Political Mountebank | John McDermott | ||
| 2 | 15 | The Man of Words, The Man of Deeds, Which Do You Think the Country Needs? – MISSING January 2008 | 1868(?) | Cameron | Currier & Ives |
| 2 | 16 | Little Mac, in His Great Two Horse Act, in the Presidential Canvass of 1864 | 1864 | Howard | T. W. Strong |
| 2 | 17 | The Political "Siamese Twins. The Offspring of Chicago Miscegenation – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 2 | 18 | Little Mac Trying to Dig His Way to the White House But Is Frightened by Spiritual Manifestations | |||
| 2 | 19 | A Thrilling Incident During Voting, 18th Ward, Philadelphia, Oct. 11 | |||
| 2 | 20 | Copperheads Worshiping Their Idol | 1868(?) | ||
| 3 | 21 | The Democratic Platform | |||
| 3 | 22 | Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 3 | 23 | Democracy 1832 [versus] 1864 | 1864 | L. Prang | |
| 3 | 24 | Heads of the Democracy | |||
| 3 | 25 | Democracy in Search of a Candidate – MISSING January 2008 | 1868 | Cameron | Currier & Ives |
| 3 | 26 | Shadows of Forthcoming Events | Thomas Nast | ||
| 3 | 27 | Democratic Platform Made Easy | H.R. Woma | ||
| 3 | 28 | The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 3 | 29 | Stephen Finding "His Mother" – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 3 | 30 | "Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of His Mother – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 4 | 31 | The Union As It Was, and The Union As It Will Be, When Reconstructed on the Basis of Constitutional Freedom | "Designed by W. J. Demorest" | From Demorest's New York Illustrated News | |
| 4 | 32 | How Free Ballot Is Protected! | |||
| 4 | 33 | Desperate Peace Man | |||
| 4 | 34 | The "If" Candidate for the Presidency | J. Gibson | ||
| 4 | 35 | The Great Match at Baltimore Between the "Illinois" Bantam and the "Old Cock" of the White House – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 4 | 36 | The Great November Contest. Patriotism Versus Bummerism | 1868 | ||
| 4 | 37 | Running the "Machine" – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 4 | 38 | The True Issue or "That's What's The Matter" – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 4 | 39 | "Your Plan and Mine" – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 4 | 40 | "I Knew Him Horatio; A Fellow of Infinite Jest … Where Be Your Gibes Now?" | Howard | ||
| 5 | 41 | Platforms Illustrated | 1868 | ||
| 5 | 42 | Abraham's Dream! – "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before." – MISSING January 2008 | 1864 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 43 | Abraham's Dream! – "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before." (Copy 2) – MISSING January 2008 | 1864 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 44 | Honest Abe Taking Them on the Half Shell – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 45 | *The Sportsman Upset by the Recoil of His Own Gun | JO. Miller | ||
| 5 | 46 | The Great Exhibition of 1860 – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 47 | The Rail Candidate – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 48 | The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track – MISSING January 2008 | 1864 | Currier & Ives | |
| 5 | 49 | *The "Rail Splitter" at Work Repairing the Union | J.E. BAKER | ||
| 5 | 50 | The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's [sic] Votes on the Battlefield | 1864(?) | ||
| 6 | 51 | The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 6 | 52 | Abe Linking with His Significantly Named Cabinet | 1864 | R.D. Goodwin | M.E. Goodwin |
| 6 | 53 | *Columbia Demands Her Children | J.E. Baker | ||
| 6 | 54 | The Chicago Platform And Candidate. A War Candidate On A Peace Platform – MISSING January 2008 | 1864 | Currier & Ives | |
| 6 | 55 | The Chicago Platform | 1864 | ||
| 6 | 56 | Behind the Scenes | |||
| 6 | 57 | Little Mack [sic] & His Party "Going Up' Salt River on a Gun Boat – MISSING January 2008 | 1864(?) | ||
| 6 | 58 | Honest Old Abe on the Stump [1858 vs. 1860] | 1860 | ||
| 6 | 59 | The War Candidate on a Peace Platform | 1864 | ||
| 6 | 60 | A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General – MISSING January 2008 | 1864 | J.L. McGee | J.L. McGee |
| 7 | 61 | Political "Blondins" Crossing the Salt River – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 62 | "The Impending Crisis" – or Caught in the Act | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 63 | "The Irrepressible Conflict." or the Republican Barge in Danger – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 64 | An Heir to the Throne, or The Next Republican Candidate – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 64 | "The Nigger" in the Woodpile – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 65 | The Political Gymnasium – MISSING January 2008 | 1860 | Currier & Ives | |
| 7 | 67 | Headquarters at Harrison's Landing | |||
| 7 | 68 | Turning the Tables on the Overseer | R. & T. Hamilton | ||
| 7 | 69 | The Tammany Tiger Loose – "What Are You Going To Do About It?" | |||
| 7 | 70 | A Union Lady Taking a View of the Modest General … | 1864(?) | ||
| 8 | 71 | Comparison of Products, Population, and Resources of the Free and Slave States | 1861 | John M. Batchelder | |
| 8 | 72 | *The Confederacy in Petticoats | 1865 | ||
| 8 | 73 | The Capture of Jeff Davis | 1865 | ||
| 8 | 74 | *The Head of the Confederacy on a New Base | 1865 | Hilton & Co. | |
| 8 | 75 | Jeff's Last Shift. Capture of Jeff. Davis, May 10th 1865, at Irwinsville, Ga. | 1865 | J.B. | J. H. Bufford |
| 8 | 76 | The True Peace Commissioners – MISSING January 2008 | 1865 | Currier & Ives | |
| 8 | 77 | *The Capture of an Unprotected Female, or The Close of the Rebellion | 1865 | Currier & Ives | |
| 8 | 78 | *THE LAST DITCH OF THE CHIVALRY, OR A PRESIDENT IN PETTICOATS (3 Copies) – 2 copies MISSING January 2008; Copy 3 still MISSING | 1865 | Currier & Ives | |
| 8 | 79 | The Voluntary Manner in Which Some of the Southern Volunteers Enlist | Thos. Worth | ||
| 8 | 80 | The Folly of Secession | |||
| 9 | 81 | South Carolina's Ultimatum – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 9 | 82 | The "Secession Movement" – MISSING January 2008 | 1861 | Currier & Ives | |
| 9 | 83 | Southern "Volunteers" | |||
| 9 | 84 | Rats Quitting the Ship | H.D. | H.R. Robinson | |
| 9 | 85 | The Smelling Committee – MISSING January 2008 | 1868 | Currier & Ives | |
| 9 | 86 | Andy's Trip | Thomas Nast | ||
| 9 | 87 | Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction And How It Works | 1866(?) | Thomas Nast | |
| 9 | 88 | Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum – Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans, July 30, 1866 | 1866 | Thomas Nast | |
| 9 | 89 | Political Caricature No. 1. The Grave of the Union, or Major Jack Downing's Dream Drawn by Zeke | 1863(?) | Bromley | |
| 9 | 90 | Political Caricature No. 2. Miscegenation or The Millennium of Abolitionism | 1864 | Bromley | |
| 10 | 91 | Political Caricature No. 3. The Abolition Catastrophe, or The November Smash-Up | 1864 | Bromley | |
| 10 | 92 | Uncle Sam Protecting His Property Against the Encroachments of His Cousin John | 1861 | E. Stauch | |
| 10 | 93 | The Ghost. A New Spectral Illusion Lately Discovered in Europe, and Now Causing a Great Commotion in America – MISSING January 2008 | 1863 | Currier & Ives | |
| 10 | 94 | A Disloyal British "Subject" – MISSING January 2008 | Currier & Ives | ||
| 10 | 95 | Caucus on the Surplus Bill | H.R. Robinson | ||
| 10 | 96 | A Bivouack in Safety or Florida Troops Preventing a Surprise | H.D.. | H.R. Robinson | |
| 10 | 97 | The Mechanic, Robert Smith The People's Favorite Honest, Energetic & Capable | H.R. Robinson | ||
| 10 | 98 | Sub Treasurers Meeting in England | 1838 | H.R. Robinson | |
| 10 | 99 | Major Joe Bunker's Last Parade, or The Fix of a Senator and His 700 Independents | 1837 | H.R. Robinson | |
| 10 | 100 | The Constitution and Its Nurses | Ca. 1837(?) | Willis & Probst | |
| 11 | 101 | Going Through the Form of Universal Suffrage | Thomas Nast | ||
| 11 | 102 | The Workingman's Mite | Thomas Nast | ||
| 11 | 103 | Impeachment | |||
| 11 | 104 | Keep the Ball Rolling | Thomas Nast | ||
| 11 | 105 | Matched? [U.S. Grant vs. Horatio N. Seymour] | 1868 | Thomas Nast | |
| 11 | 106 | Justice on the Rail – Erie Railroad (Ring) Smash Up | Thomas Nast | ||
| 11 | 107 | What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils | 1871 | Thomas Nast |