"Up a tree ": Colonel Bull and the Yankee coon

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Year:: 1862
Genre:: cartoons (humorous images)
Subject:: Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Caricatures and cartoons
Local ID:: M157z
Extent:: 1 cartoon; 32.6 x 25 cm.

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Abstract:: Lincoln, his head on the body of a raccoon, is pictured trapped up a tree, while Colonel Bull, on the ground, is aiming a gun at him. 'Coon: "Air you in earnest, Colonel?" Colonel Bull: "I am" 'Coon: "Don't fire--I'll come down" From the 1862 edition of Mr. Punch's Victorian Era

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

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"'Up a tree ': Colonel Bull and the Yankee coon " (1862). Lincoln Graphics. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69812/

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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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