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  Playing Card Deck Case From Lincoln National Life

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  Set of A. Lincoln playing cards (2515 A) and case (2515 B). There is approximately 54 cards in the deck. The playing cards come in four suits with two additional joker cards. This object includes a red and white colored box. created by the Lincoln National Life Foundation

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  Playing Card Deck Case From Lincoln National Life

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  Set of A. Lincoln playing cards (2515 A) and case (2515 B). This object is a brown leather case which holds object 2515A. There is gold colored lettering on the front. created by the Lincoln National Life Foundation

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  Santa Claus Lincoln

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is depicted as a Santa Claus figure. He wears the traditional Santa suit and holds in his proper right hand an olive branch and a sword. His proper left index finger rests just to the side of his nose. Behind him, Jefferson Davis is shown sleeping in bed. The print is organized in stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  Stephen Finding "His Mother"

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a circa 1860 political cartoon. In the cartoon, Stephen A. Douglas is shown thrown over the knee of Columbia, who spanks Douglas with a switch labeled "Maine Law." A figure, Uncle Sam, stands to the left and encourages Columbia on. The cartoon references two events. First, Douglas was widely criticized for his 1860 campaign tours; thus, he feigned a trip to see his mother as a coverup for his tour. He was lambasted in the media as a result. Second, the cartoon criticizes Douglas's earlier support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes on the Battle Field

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of an 1864 political cartoon. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is shown holding a plaid Scotch cap on a battlefield surrounded by dead and wounded soldiers. He asks one to sing "Picayune Butler" or something funny. The cartoon is anti-Lincoln and echoes contemporaneous news reports that reported Lincoln allegedly joking while visiting the Antietam Battlefield and his supposed disregard for the well-being of soldiers. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints. bitterly anti-Lincoln cartoon, based on slanderous newspaper reports of the President's callous disregard of the misery of Union troops at the front. The story that Lincoln had joked on the field at Antietam appeared in the "New York World." Holding a plaid Scotch cap (see "Abraham's Dream--"Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before,"" no. 1864-42), Lincoln stands on the battlefield at Antietam, which is littered with Union dead and wounded. He instructs his friend Marshal Lamon, who stands with his back toward the viewer and his hand over his face, to "sing us P̀icayune Butler,' or something else that's funny."

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  The MacLincoln Harrisburg Highland Fling

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a cartoon that comments on Abraham Lincoln traveling in disguise from Harrisburg to Washington on 23 February 1861 for the Presidential Inauguration. The disguised trip was in response to an assassination threat. In the cartoon, Lincoln is shown dancing and dressed in a Scottish kilt and tam.

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  The New President [of the United States from a Fugitive Sketch]

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a cartoon that comments on Abraham Lincoln traveling in disguise from Harrisburg to Washington on 23 February 1861 for the Presidential Inauguration. The disguised trip was in response to an assassination threat. In the cartoon, Lincoln is shown wearing a long overcoat. His entire face and body are covered, save for a Scottish hat, his nose, and his feet. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Situation

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon published sometime at the end of the Civil War. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is depicted as an officer who has hunted down Jefferson Davis. Lincoln holds a short baton in his proper right hand and grips Davis's shirt with his proper left. In Davis's proper left hand, he holds a folder labeled 'US Treasury.' The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  To Richmond

  Lincoln National Life Foundation

  The print is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is shown carting George B. McClellan in a wheelbarrow. McClellan carries an open parasol in his proper right hand and a shovel over his proper left shoulder. The pair travels to Richmond, as indicated by a sign in the background. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  A Campaign Caricature: A "Rail" Old Western Gentleman

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Frank Henry Temple Bellew

  The print is a reproduction of a portion of a cartoon series originally appearing in the August 1860 edition of Comic Monthly. The series was entitled "The Humors of the Political Canvass," which featured all of the 1860 presidential candidates. In this particular manifestation, the cartoon only shows Abraham Lincoln drawn as a stick figure or "the 'Rail' old Western gentleman." The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Great Exhibition of 1860

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Currier and Ives

  The print is a reproduction of an political cartoon the satirizes the antislavery platform of the Republican party during the 1860 Presidential Election. Horace Greeley is pictured as an organ grinder while Abraham Lincoln is shown prancing on a wooden rail. William H. Seward is depicted in the cartoon's background holding an African-American infant. Henry J. Raymond (New York Times editor) and James Watson Webb (Courier and Enquirer editor) are also featured. The print is organized and enclosed in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run".

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Currier and Ives

  The print is a reproduction of a pro-Lincoln satirical cartoon that was published just before the 1860 Presidential Election. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln has just defeated John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckinridge in a baseball game. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Political Siamese Twins, the Offspring of Chicago Miscegentation

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Currier and Ives

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon that satirizes the unlikely pairing of George B. McClellan and George Hunt Pendleton in the 1865 United States Presidential Election. In the center of the cartoon, McClellan and Pendleton are depicted as conjoined twins that are connected by "The Party Tie." Pictured at the left of the cartoon are two Union soldiers who vocalize their disapproval of the connection. At the cartoon's right, Clement Laird Vallandigham and Horatio Seymour convey their "peace at any price" stance on the war. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  Jeff Davis's November Nightmare

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon that originally appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on 3 December 1864. In the cartoon, Jefferson Davis is shown having a nightmare about Abraham Lincoln winning the 1864 United States Presidential Election. Davis lies in his bed with Lincoln sitting on his chest. Under Lincoln's proper right hand, a paper with the words "Latest Union Majorities" is pictured. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  No Communion with Slaveholders

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Harper's Weekly

  The print is a reproduction of a cartoon depicting several American historical figures communing in a church. Henry Ward Beecher stands at a pulpit with a Communion chalice and refuses to serve George Washington, who is kneeling. John Brown points to a sign indicating that Communion is not to be held with slave holders. Congregation members depicted include William H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln, and Horace Greeley. The cartoon, published on 2 March 1861, two days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration day, suggests the incoming administration would reject even the most revered of historical figures, George Washington. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Situation

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Harper's Weekly

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon (originally published in the 7 March 1868 edition of Harper's Weekly) that references the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. In the cartoon, Ulysses S. Grant and Edwin Stanton stand near a cannon labeled "Congress." The cannon takes aim at Lorenzo Thomas and President Johnson. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  Jeff Davis, After the Fall of Fort Sumter 1861/1863

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and David Claypoole Johnston

  The print is a reproduction of a ca. 1863 lithographic caricature of Jefferson Davis. A feature of the original print included a tab a the bottom. When pulled, the tab would change the expression of Davis from an open-mouth smile to a scowl with bulging eyes. The date in the caption of the print changes from 1861 (date of Confederate Victory) to 1863 (date of Confederate defeat). The reproductive print shows both the unpulled and pulled tab version of the lithograph in two panels. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  "By the way this puts me in mind of a little story in Esop's Fables"

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Frederick Leypoldt

  The print is a reproduction of an illustration originally appearing in Frederick Leypoldt's 1863 publication, Ye Book of Copperheads. In the illustration, Abraham Lincoln's head is mounted on a nail file. A copperhead snake is shown with its body wound around the file and biting the file's shaft. During the Civil War, Copperhead, a snake with a predisposition to strike without warning, was a nickname given to Peace Democrats who opposed the war and called for reconciliation between the North and South.

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  "Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of His Mother

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Louis Maurer

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon satirizing Stephen Douglas's July 1860 presidential campaign tour of upstate New York and New England. Douglas was widely criticized for his 1860 campaign tours. Thus, he feigned a trip to see his mother as a coverup and was lambasted in the media as a result. The cartoon plays off of the word stump, in the literal sense (wooden leg) and in the figurative sense (campaigning). Important figures depicted in the cartoon include: John Bell, Henry A. Wise, Stephen A. Douglas, James Buchanan, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Great Match at Baltimore, Between the "Illinois Bantam", and the "Old Cock" of the White House.

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Louis Maurer

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon satirizing the 1860 United States Presidential Election. In the cartoon, a cockfight is shown between Stephen A. Douglas and James C. Buchanan, both drawn with the bodies of roosters. Douglas stands victorious on Buchanan�s body. To the right, an unidentified man places another cock, John C. Breckinridge, into the ring. To the left, an Irishman watches the fight (possibly a nod to the Tammany Democrats of New York). The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The nigger"" in the Woodpile

  Lincoln National Life Foundation, Louis Maurer, and Currier and Ives

  The print is a reproduction of a 1860 political cartoon. In the racist cartoon, the Republican party's attempts to play down their antislavery platform is satirized. Horace Greeely, the editor of the New York Tribune, speaks to a young man (representative of progressive Democrats) in an attempt to convince him that the Republican party had no connection with the abolitionist movement, but instead had a platform built entirely of rails. To the right, Abraham Lincoln sits on a rail-constructed platform labeled "Republican Platform." A young African-American man sits grinning from underneath the platform. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  Any More Scrubbing to Give Out?

  Lincoln National Life Foundation, John McLenan, and Harper's Weekly

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon that originally appeared in the 17 January 1863 edition of Harper's Weekly. In the cartoon, General Benjamin Butler is shown with an apron tied at his waist and carrying cleaning supplies. Abraham Lincoln is also shown, peering from behind a door with his proper left arm outstretched. The cartoon is a reference to Butler's tenure as commander of the occupation forces in New Orleans, where Butler was said to have "cleaned up" the Confederate city. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  The Crippled American Eagle, the Cock, and the Lion

  Lincoln National Life Foundation, John McLenan, and Harper's Weekly

  The print is a reproduction of a cartoon originally published on 2 February 1861. In the cartoon, an eagle (symbolic for the United States), a lion (symbolic for England), and a cock/rooster (symbolic for France) are pictured. The eagle is supported by two crutches while the lion and cock/rooster inquire about the Monroe Doctrine. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  Abe the Acrobat

  Lincoln National Life Foundation and Matthew Somerville Morgan

  The print is a reproduction of a political cartoon originally published in the November 1862 edition of Fun magazine. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is shown dressed as a patriotic acrobat and hanging upside down on acrobatic rings in front of a cheering crowd. His proper left foot hangs on a ring labeled 'Emancipation.' Seated in the balcony, a less-impressed crowd made up of European royalty (Austria, England, France, Italy, and Spain) look on with disdain. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.

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  This Little Boy Would Persist in handling Books Above His Capacity. And This Was the Disastrous Result.

  Lincoln National Life Foundation, Thomas Nast, and Harper's Weekly

  The print is a reproduction of a two-panel cartoon originally published on 21 March 1868. In the first panel, a tiny Andrew Johnson is depicted standing on the top step of a ladder and lifting a large book from a bookshelf. In the second panel, Johnson has fallen off of the ladder and is crushed under the large book, the Constitution of the United States. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints.