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PGA - Currier & Ives--Breaking that backbone
Currier & Ives.
Breaking that "backbone"
[graphic].
[New York] :
Pub'd. by Currier & Ives, Nassau St., N.Y.
[1862 or 1863]
1 print on wove paper :
lithograph ;
image 27 x 34 cm.
A figurative commentary on Northern efforts to end the rebellion during the early years of the Civil War. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (far left) displays "the Great Southern Gyascutis," a dog-like monster with long fangs and an enlarged spine, the "stiffest Back-Bone ever grown." The beast is labeled "Rebellion." Davis holds the animal on a chain as several figures prepare to attack it with large sledgehammers. From left to right, they are: Union generals Henry W. Halleck and George B. McClellan, who swing in unison hammers marked "Skill" and "Strategy," respectively; and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who waits his turn holding a hammer labeled "Draft." On the far right waits President Lincoln, with the ax "Emancipation Proclamation" over his shoulder. Stanton: "Halleck may use his skill and Mac his strategy, but this draft will do the business." Lincoln: "You can try him with that, but I'm afraid this axe of mine is the only thing that will fetch him." At left, behind the group, sits a dejected, bespectacled man holding a tiny hammer labeled "Compromise." Further left, on a wall behind Jefferson Davis, hangs a poster saying "Only 10,000 men and $1000,000 in Treasure per Crack. Step up and Try your Muscle."
Title from item.
Signed: BDay del. [Benjamin H. Day, Jr.]
Printed late 1862 or early 1863.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonneĢ / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983,
no. 731
Weitenkampf,
p. 135
Wilson,
p. 188-189
No known restrictions on publication.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-8.
Draft (Military service)
1860-1870
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Davis, Jefferson.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Halleck, Henry W.
Lincoln, Abraham, presidency.
McClellan, George B.
Stanton, Edwin M.
Political cartoons
1860-1870.
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Lithographs
1860-1870.
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Day, Benjamin Henry,
1838-1916,
artist.
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
digital file from original item
pga
06227
p
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.06227
digital file from b&w film copy neg.
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3a42878
p
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a42878
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