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The federal phoenix

Description

Abstract:
This cartoon was drawn in reaction to the presidential election of November 1864. Lincoln, who only a few weeks earlier, had seemed doomed to defeat at the hands of George McClellan, rises from the flames. With a stars-and-stripes shield draped around his neck he ascends from the conflagration of his country, in which burning brands are labelled "Commerce," "United States Constitution," "Free Press," "Credit," "Habeus Corpus," and "States Rights."

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Tenniel, John, "The federal phoenix" (1864). Lincoln Graphics. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69747/

Relations

Collection:

  • Lincoln Graphics

    Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …
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