Great Exhibition of 1860,Anti Slavery,Abraham Lincoln,Civil War,South Carolina
Title: The great exhibition of 1860
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1860.
Summary: The artist satirizes the antislavery orientation of the Republican platform. Abolitionist editor Horace Greeley (left) grinds his New York 'Tribune' organ as candidate Abraham Lincoln. Webb. August 1860 to revive his newspaper's flagging circulation, which included a reduction of the paper's price to three cents and the hiring of newsboys to sell the 'Courier' on the streets.
Notes:
Title from item.
Probably drawn by Louis Maurer.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2828
Weitenkampf, p. 122
Wilson, p. 50-51
Murrell, p. 119
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-29.
Subjects:
African Americans (portrayed).
Greeley, Horace, support of Lincoln's presidential candidacy.
Lincoln, Abraham, presidential candidate.
Newspapers: Courier and Enquirer.
Newspapers: New York Tribune.
Oregon.
Raymond, Henry Jarvis.
Seward, William H., and the 1860 Republican nomination.
Slaves and slavery, as a campaign issue.
South Carolina, in the Civil War.
Webb, James Watson.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870
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