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TITLE: Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: "Jeff's war hoops"
CALL NUMBER: LOT 10615-16 (C-E) [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-99059 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Another comic version of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's ignominious capture by Union troops in May 1865. (See also "The Chas-ed "Old Lady" of the C.S.A.," no. 1865-11.) Here Davis, clad as a woman and holding a wooden pail, is discovered by a lone trooper, Benjamin Dudley Pritchard of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. The soldier lifts the skirts of the fugitive to reveal a pair of black boots. Davis's wife (at right) protests, saying, "Only my mother."
MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph printed in olive and black on wove paper ; 30 x 19.8 cm. (image)
CREATED/PUBLISHED: Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 1865.
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NOTES:
Entered . . . 1865 by Lee & Walker . . . Pa.
Philadelphia, Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St.
Published for the benefit of the Western Sanitary Fairs of Chicago, Ill. and Milwaukee, Wis.
The Library's impression of the sheet music cover was filed for copyright on June 28, 1865.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1865-19.
SUBJECTS:
Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889--Capture & imprisonment, 1865.
FORMAT:
Lithographs 1860-1870.
Sheet music covers 1860-1870.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b45134 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b45134
CONTROL #: 2008661693
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