Symbols, historical and literary figures and references

Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
June 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Sinbad the Sailor
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878, as the Old Man of the Sea
"SINBAD LINCOLN AND THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
July 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889, as Richard III
"SURROUNDED."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
January 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889, as Richard III
"THE WINTER OF THEIR DISCONTENT--JEFF AND HIS LIEUTENANT OVERTAKEN IN A SNOWSTORM--OF BALLOTS."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
February 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Roland (The Song of Roland)
- Sanders, George Nicholas, 1812-1873, as Oliver (The Song of Roland)
"A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVE-R."


Punch
April 05, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Oberon
- Virginia as Titania
"OBERON AND TITANIA."


Punch
August 15, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Black American as Caesar's ghost
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Brutus
"BRUTUS AND CAESAR."


Fun
November 07, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Guy Fawkes
"THE YANKEE GUY FAWKES."


Harper's Weekly
March 09, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as the biblical Abraham
"THE FLIGHT OF ABRAHAM --(1.) THE ALARM."


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
October 08, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Roland (The Song of Roland)
- Sanders, George Nicholas, 1812-1873, as Oliver (The Song of Roland)
"A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVE-R."


New York Illustrated News
March 23, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a Roman warrior
"THE PRESIDENT'S INAUGURAL."


The Southern Illustrated News
October 31, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Black American as Caesar's ghost
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Brutus
"BRUTUS AND CAESAR."


Vanity Fair
June 02, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Blair, Francis Preston, 1821-1875, as Casca
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as Brutus
- Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 1820-1869, as Mark Antony
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as Julius Caesar
"ET TU, GREELEY?"


Vanity Fair
July 07, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Bell, John, 1797-1869, as a gladiator
- Breckinridge, John Cabell, 1821-1875, as a gladiator
- Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861, as a gladiator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a gladiator
"SERENE ABOVE THEM ALL."


Vanity Fair
October 13, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as Richard III
'SEWARD'S GRAND STARRING TOUR."


Vanity Fair
November 03, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Bennett, James Gordon, 1795-1872, as Chang or Eng
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, as Chang or Eng
- Pryor, Roger Atkinson, 1828-1919, as Brutus
"WONDERFUL SURGICAL OPERATION,"


Vanity Fair
November 10, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as Nero
"DEPLORABLE RESULT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION. AS DEPICTED BY THE HERALD AND EXPRESS."


Vanity Fair
December 15, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Bennett, James Gordon, 1795-1872, as Verges
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, as Dogberry
- Cochrane, John, 1813-1898, as a night watchman (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a night watchman (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891, as a night watchman (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Seacoal
"DOGBERRY'S LAST CHARGE."


Vanity Fair
March 15, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863, as Jemmy Twticher ("The Beggar's Opera")
"JEMMY TWITCHER FLOYD."


Wide-Awake Pictorial
November 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Cincinnatus
"THE TRIBUNE OFFERING THE CHIEF MAGISTRACY TO THE WESTERN CINCINNATUS."


Yankee Notions
December 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, as Robinson Crusoe
"POOR McROBINSON CRUSOE!"


 

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