Symbols, Black Americans
Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
July 15, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- New York Tribune as a black woman
- presidential campaign and election, 1860
"BACK FROM CHICAGO."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
August 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- black draught
- presidential campaign and election, 1860
[UNCLE SAM AND COLUMBIA.]


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
September 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- presidential campaign and election, 1860
- steamboat steward
"THAT HORRID DARKEY WHO WON'T LET FOLKS SLEEP."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 15, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Republican Wide-Awake
"THE GREAT ORIGINAL WIDE-AWAKE."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
June 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- blackbirds
"A HUMANE BUT OFFICIOUS HUNTER."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- slave (male) on an auction block
"A SOLEMN WARNING."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
February 01, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- banjo player
"BUTLER HANGED--THE NEGRO FREED--ON PAPER--1863."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
August 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- baby
- presidential campaign and election, 1860
"COLUMBIA AND HER SUITORS."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
November 01, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- drowning man
[UNION AND FREMONT PROCLAMATION.]


Punch
May 11, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- smoke
"THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY."


Punch
April 05, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- slavery as a black boy
"OBERON AND TITANIA."


Punch
October 18, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Emancipation Proclamation as the ace of spades
"ABE LINCOLN'S LAST CARD; OR, ROUGE-ET-NOIR."


Punch
January 24, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Caliban (The Tempest)
"SCENE FROM THE AMERICAN 'TEMPEST.'"


Punch
August 15, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Caesar's ghost
"BRUTUS AND CAESAR."


Campaign Plain Dealer
October 06, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- wedge
- wedge
"THE RAIL SPLITTER."


Campaign Plain Dealer
October 27, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- wedge
"OLD ABEWATHA."


The Funniest of Phun
April 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- doll
"THE HEROD OF THE 19TH CENTURY."


Harper's Weekly
August 25, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- acrobat
"THE COMING MAN'S PRESIDENTIAL CAREER, A LA BLONDIN."


Harper's Weekly
August 03, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- jack-in-the-box
"A MILD SHOCK FOR OUR VIRTUOUS FRIEND, MR. JOHN BULL."


Harper's Weekly
August 15, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- boy
"THE PRESIDENT'S ORDER No. 252."


Harper's Weekly
July 02, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- doll
"THAT'S WHAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH JOHN C."


Nick-Nax
June 01, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- ring-bearer at wedding
- slave with chains broken
"THE NEXT NEW MARRIAGE."


New York Illustrated News
April 12, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- sick man, slavery as a
"DOCTOR LINCOLN'S NEW ELIXIR OF LIFE--FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES."


The Southern Illustrated News
October 31, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Caesar's ghost
"BRUTUS AND CAESAR."


Vanity Fair
June 02, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a black man
"ET TU, GREELEY?"


Vanity Fair
June 09, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- baby
- presidential campaign and election, 1860
"SHAKY."


Vanity Fair
July 07, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- face on gladiatorial armor
"SERENE ABOVE THEM ALL."


Vanity Fair
September 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- rail


Vanity Fair
November 17, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- face mask
"GREAT SALE OF FORFEITED PLEDGES."


Vanity Fair
July 05, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- doll
[PREFACE.]


Vanity Fair
September 06, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- monkey
"THE MONOTONOUS MINSTREL."


Vanity Fair
October 04, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- blackbirds
"WHAT WILL HE DO WITH THEM?"


Vanity Fair
December 06, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- seesaw fulcrum
"THE MANIFEST DESTINY OF SAMBO:"


 

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