04590ckm a22006733a 4500 13384143 20250606203300.7 kj|||| cr|||| 031025s1860 nyunnn | kneng 13384143 0 cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-printpho qw30 2018-10r 2003674584 (DLC)app1994000464/PP LC-DIG-ppmsca-09311 DLC (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-12942 DLC (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-12425 DLC (b&w film copy neg.) DLC eng dcrmg DLC DLC PGA - Currier & Ives--National game... Currier & Ives. The national game. Three "outs" and one "run" [graphic]. [New York : Currier & Ives], c1860. 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; 29 x 34 cm (image) still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Title from item. Probably drawn by Louis Maurer. Inscribed bottom center: "Sept. 15, 1860." Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4766 Weitenkampf, p. 124 Wilson, p. 26-27 Lorant, p. 241 A pro-Lincoln satire, deposited for copyright weeks before the 1860 presidential election. The contest is portrayed as a baseball game in which Lincoln has defeated (left to right) John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckinridge. Lincoln (right) stands with his foot on "Home Base," advising the others, "Gentlemen, if any of you should ever take a hand in another match at this game, remember that you must have a good bat' and strike a fair ball' to make a clean score' & a home run.'" His "good bat" is actually a wooden rail labeled "Equal Rights and Free Territory." Lincoln wears a belt inscribed "Wide Awake Club." (See no. 1860-14 on the Wide-Awakes.) A skunk stands near the other candidates, signifying that they have been "skunk'd." Breckinridge (center), a Southern Democrat, holds his nose, saying, "I guess I'd better leave for Kentucky, for I smell something strong around here, and begin to think, that we are completely skunk'd.'" His bat is labeled "Slavery Extension" and his belt "Disunion Club." At far left John Bell of the Constitutional Union party observes, "It appears to me very singular that we three should strike foul' and be put out' while old Abe made such a good lick.' Bell's belt says "Union Club," and his bat "Fusion." Regular Democratic nominee Douglas replies, "That's because he had that confounded rail, to strike with, I thought our fusion would be a short stop' to his career." He grasps a bat labeled "Non Intervention." No known restrictions on publication. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-42. Exhibited: "Baseball Americana," at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, South Gallery (LJ-250), February 4 - July 31, 2019. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Bates, Edward, 1793-1869. Bell, John, 1801-1888. Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875. Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861. Baseball 1860-1870. lctgm Presidential elections 1860-1870. lctgm Baseball. Bates, Edward. Bell, John, as presidential candidate. Breckenridge, John C. Douglas, Stephen Arnold. Lincoln, Abraham, presidential candidate. Wide-Awake Club. Political cartoons 1860-1870. gmgpc Satires (Visual works) 1860-1870. gmgpc Lithographs 1860-1870. gmgpc Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print digital file from original print ppmsca 09311 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09311 digital file from color film copy transparency cph 3g12942 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12942 digital file from b&w film copy neg. cph 3a14790 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a14790 pp/pga pp/app pp/exh L4804-2 #13.01 pp/diof c-P&P (B size)