Lincoln
  • 1860 Election
  •   - Harpweek
      - "Uncle Sam" making new arrangements
      - The Political Eclipse of 1860
      - Honest old Abe on the Stump. Springfield 1858. Honest old Abe on the Stump, at the ratification Meeting of Presidential Nominations. Springfield 1860.
      - Too many Cooks Spoil the broth
      - A Western Luminary: A Link on (A. Lincoln) the Lighthouse at Chicago
      - The rail candidate
      - An heir to the throne, or the next Republication candidate
      - When Washington was the Sole Standard
      - Wonderful Surgical Operation
      - A Cartoon that Foreshadowed Events
      - Columbia and Her Suitors
      - The National Game, Three Outs and One Run
      - "The impending crisis"-Or caught in the act
      - The great exhibition of 1860
      - "The irrepressible confict" Or the Republican barge in danger
      - The Republican Party going to the right House
      - The Split-Tail Democracy
      - The Last Rail Split by ‘Honest Old Abe’
      - Candidates and Platforms
      - A Political Race
      - Coming ‘Round
      - Dividing the National Map
      - Dogberry’s Last Charge
      - Letting the cat out of the bag!
      - Lincoln, Douglas and the Rail-Fence Handicap
      - Storming the Castle
      - The Great Exhibition of 1860
      - Political Quadrille Music by Dred Scott
      - Three to One You Don’t Get It, [Variation on the Popular Interpretation of the Meaning of the Pawnbroker’s Sons]
      - The Power of the Rail
      - Lincoln shows Douglas the Right Road to the White House
      - Honest Abe taking them on the half shell
      - Progressive democracy – prospect of a smash up
      - Shaky
      - Sich a gittin’ Upstairs (A Quarrel lin the Household)
      - The Political Gymnasium
      - Political Blondins Crossing Salt River
      - Coming Man’s Presidential Career
      - Et Tu Greeley
      - ‘Taking the stump’ or Stephen in search of his mother
      - A Phenomenon of Portraiture
      - Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
      - Old Abe and His Electors
      - The Humors of the Presidential Canvass
      - The New President of the United States. From a Fugitive Sketch
      - The Perilous Voyage to the White House
      - The Presidential Pot-Pie
      - The Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates at Breakfast the Morning After
      - Castle Lincoln – No Surrender: Fort Davis – in Ruins
      - Great and astonishing trick of Old Abe, the Western juggler
      - Great Fight for the Championship
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
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      - The Generous Rivals
      - Abraham, Wait on this Gentleman to the Door
      - Getting at the Root of It
      - Unheeded Advice
      - Oh! Willie, We Have Missed You!
      - Republican Campaign Conflict between Seward and Lincoln, James Watson Webb is Featured on the Bow
      - The Great Match at Baltimore
      - The Great Political Political Race
      - The Sowers
      - The Tallest Ruler on the Globe
      - Good Gracious, Abraham Lincoln
      - Great Swimming Match to Come Off on the Fourth of November
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
      - Honest old Abe on the Stump
      - The Undecided Political Prize
      - Abe, The Giant Killer
      - Abe Lincoln’s Last Card; or, Rouge et Noir
      - Unheeded Advice
      - Abraham, Wait on this Gentleman to the Door
      - To the Victors Belong the Spoils – Bunker
      - Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
      - Leading, Following, Rebelling
      - Extremes Meet
      - The Smothering of the Democratic Princes
  • President Lincoln
  • Civil War
  • Cabinet and Patronage
  • Emancipation and Slavery
  • Black Soldiers
  • New York City
  • The Press
  • 1864 Election
  • Assassination & Funeral
  • Secession
  • Foreign Policy
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    Honest old Abe on the Stump. Springfield 1858. Honest old Abe on the Stump, at the ratification Meeting of Presidential Nominations. Springfield 1860.

    Honest old Abe on the Stump. Springfield 1858. Honest old Abe on the Stump, at the ratification Meeting of Presidential Nominations. Springfield 1860.

    Title: Honest old Abe on the Stump. Springfield 1858. Honest old Abe on the Stump, at the ratification Meeting of Presidential Nominations. Springfield 1860.

    Year: 1860

    Description: A caricature of Abraham Lincoln, probably appearing soon after his nomination as Republican presidential candidate. The artist contrasts Lincoln's modest posture at the Illinois Republican state convention in Springfield in 1858 with his confident appearance at the 1860 Illinois Republican ratifying convention, also held in Springfield. The two Lincolns are shown joined at the back and seated on a stump. The 1858 Lincoln (facing left) addresses a small audience of men, including a young black man. He denies any presidential ambitions, his words appearing in a cabbage-shaped balloon: "Nobody ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any Cabbages were sprouting out." In contrast, the 1860 Lincoln (facing right) states, "I come to see, and be seen." There may be, as Wilson maintains, an implied criticism here of Lincoln's reticence about his political views during the 1860 campaign, when from May to November Lincoln made no speeches except for a brief address at the meeting in Springfield. This may explain the less-than-enthusiastic, puzzled look of several of his listeners here. The lithograph is particularly well drawn. Although clearly by a trained and able artist, it is not readily attributable to any of the major known cartoonists of the time.

    URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a15290

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