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19 July 1865
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott (1817-1875)
Kentucky election call for white mail Union citizens over 21 years old who have not "expatriated" themselves by aiding the Confederacy.
GLC08315
1870
[Anti-15th Amendment]
"Hedgehog's Grand Combination of Powers of Darkness. . .The whole to conclude with Hedgehog's celebrated feat of swallowing a live negro!. . ." Reconstruction
GLC08395
June 1862
Stone & Huse
Grand Historic Mirror of the American War
Civil War broadside advertising a three day exhibition (June 26-28, 1862) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, of Robert Pearson's artistic rendition of the "Progress of the War illustrated with startling dioramic accompaniments!" Also, to be accompanied...
GLC08442.01
July 1861
Samuel Bowles and Company
Grand Civic, Military, and Firemen's Celebration
Civil War broadside advertising the Fourth of July celebration "in Honor of the 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers." Outlines the schedule for the festivities. Printed by Samuel Bowles & Company. Docketed "From George W.W. Gray of Springfield...
GLC08442.02
post 1865
Unknown
Slavery Days.
Printing of an anti-slavery poem written from the perspective of an older male slave who is close to dying. The first verse reads, "I am thinking now to day of the years that's pass'd away, When they tied me up in bondage long ago, In old Virginia...
GLC09003
28 September 1863
Hammond, James D. (fl. 1863)
White Slaves.
Wage slavery, quotes an 1858 speech which calls for restraint after New York City draft riots, and challenges Democratic agitators to dispute conclusions: " ... self-interest and patriotism both call upon Workingmen to stand by the government firm as...
GLC09013
1862
[Civil War draft broadside]
Satirical lampooning of medical exemptions: "Attention X-Imps!"
GLC09016
1868
Presidential Election broadside
Associating Democratic Party with former Confederate officers. Reprints portions of Democratic platform accompanied by negative allegedly found in Southern newspapers; includes four large cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting Nathaniel Bedford Forrest...
GLC09017
circa 1863
Black Republican Prayer
Copperhead Black Republican Prayer. About the emancipation of slaves and Lincoln's prosecution of the war. "May the blessings of Emancipation extend throughout our unhappy land--and the illustrious, sweet scented Sambo nestle in the bosom of...
GLC09116
5 March 1861
Young, Joshua M. (fl. 1861)
President Lincoln's Inaugural. Maine Democrat Extra
Printing of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address in three colums.
GLC05557.01
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