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

Sub-entries:  
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a minstrel performer
- Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, as a minstrel show manager
"BILLY SEWARD, THE CELEBRATED BLACK REPUBLICAN MINSTREL, RETIRING FROM THE STAGE."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
August 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891, as a physician
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a physician
[UNCLE SAM AND COLUMBIA.]


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 15, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a butler
"THE INGRATITUDE OF THE REPUBLIC-ANS."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 15, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
[BRECKINRIDGE, DOUGLAS, LINCOLN.]


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
February 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a shepherd
"THE PET LAMB AND THE BLACK SHEEP; OR, THE UNHAPPY SHEPHERD."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
November 01, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a hotel doorman
- Uncle Sam as a hotel owner
"A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE--THE MONROE DOCTRINE TRIUMPHANT."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
April 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a farmer
"SYMPTOMS OF SPRING--UNCLE ABRAM'S CROP BEGINS TO SHOOT."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a deliveryman
- McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, as a deliveryman
"A PARCEL FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; OR, THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
January 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as an orchestra conductor
"GREAT UNION BALL-AN INVITATION."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
March 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893, as a butler
"ABE AND GENERAL BUTLER."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
March 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rescue crewman
"OLD MR. SECESH PREFERS ANNIHILATION TO SALVATION IN THE UNION BOAT. IN HIS RAPID DESCENT HE SEES SOME AGREEABLE VISIONS."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
April 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a sheep-shearer
"THE REBEL BLACK SHEEP WHO WENT FOR WOOL, AND GOT SHORN."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
May 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Ericsson, John, 1803-1889, as a college professor
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885, as a college professor
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a college professor
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875, as a college professor
- Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880, as a college professor
- Uncle Sam as a college professor
- Winslow, John Ancrum, 1811-1873, as a college professor
"AFTER THE WAR.--UNCLE SAM'S COLLEGE--THE NOODLES AND DOODLES OF EUROPE GETTING A NOTION OR TWO."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
November 01, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a bookkeeper
"THE BILL PRESENTED."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
January 01, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a farmer
[MISS COLUMBIA AND OLD ABE.]


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
April 01, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a cabinet-maker
[UNION GLUE.]


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
April 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889, as a coachman
"A DEPENDENCE UPON ENGLAND AND FRANCE."


Punch
July 26, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a bartender
"THE LATEST FROM AMERICA;"


Punch
September 27, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a bookkeeper
"THE OVERDUE BILL."


Punch
December 13, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893, as a church warden
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a church warden


Punch
February 18, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as an attorney
"THE THREATENING NOTICE."


Fun
April 05, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a professor of mixology
"SENSATION JUMBLE."


Fun
August 02, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a physician
"AFTER HIS LAST RUN."


Fun
February 21, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873, as a chef or cook
"YANKEE PANCAKES."


Fun
May 30, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873, as a gambler
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a gambler
"THE SETTLING DAY."


Fun
July 18, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a gambler
"TRICKS V. HONOURS."


Fun
October 17, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a farmer
"THE SOWERS."


Comic Monthly
October 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890, as a jockey
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a jockey
- McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, as a jockey
"THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE."


Comic Monthly
November 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
"THE BATTLE IN NEW YORK."


Campaign Plain Dealer
July 07, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a slaughterhouse worker
"THE SLAUGHTER OF SEWARD."


Campaign Plain Dealer
July 07, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a jockey
"RIDING ON A RAIL."


Campaign Plain Dealer
August 11, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a stagecoach driver
"WHEEL HORSES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY."


Campaign Plain Dealer
September 22, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a stagecoach driver
"'BOLTING BRECK' BROUGHT TO BY THE 'LITTLE GIANT'---'OLD ABE' THROWN OVER THE FORE-BOARD---BRECK-DOWN OF THE LINCOLN-RIDGE PARTY---AN OMEN FOR NOVEMBER."


Campaign Plain Dealer
October 06, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
"THE RAIL SPLITTER."


Campaign Plain Dealer
October 27, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
"OLD ABEWATHA."


The Funniest of Phun
April 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a jester
"THE NATIONAL JOKER. SALARY 25,000 DOLLARS PER ANNUM."


Harper's Weekly
December 20, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a theater manager
[THE GREAT NEGRO EMANCIPATION.]


Harper's Weekly
January 10, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a ship's captain
"UNIVERSAL ADVICE TO ABRAHAM. DROP 'EM!"


Harper's Weekly
February 21, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a barber
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869, as a barber
"UNITED STATES MILITARY SHAVING SHOP."


Harper's Weekly
April 11, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a gymnasium owner
"MR. SEWARD AND THE FRENCHMAN."


Harper's Weekly
April 18, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a postman
"THE LETTER OF MARQUE."


Harper's Weekly
November 28, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a pharmacist
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a physician
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a delivery boy
"DRAWING THINGS TO A HEAD."


Harper's Weekly
July 02, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Brother Jonathan as a physician
"THAT'S WHAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH JOHN C."


Harper's Weekly
April 15, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a journalist (war correspondent)
"FROM OUR SPECIAL WAR CORRESPONDENT."


Harper's Weekly
July 13, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a police officer
"THE SITUATION."


Harper's Weekly
January 17, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893, as a butler
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND BENJAMIN BUTLER.]


Harper's Weekly
January 31, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a theater manager
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869, as a playwright
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878, as a composer
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN, COPPERHEADS, AND THE UNION WAR EFFORT.]


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
February 02, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a cabinet-maker
[UNION GLUE.]


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
November 23, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865, as a servant
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a servant
"A ROW IN THE SERVANTS' HALL."


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
March 28, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Jewett, William Cornell ("Colorado"), 1823-1893, as a physician
"ENOUGH TO KILL HIM."


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
June 13, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a wholesale merchant
- Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, as a wholesale merchant
"RIGHT AT LAST."


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
February 18, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889, as a coachman
"A DEPENDENCE UPON ENGLAND AND FRANCE."


Nick-Nax
June 01, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a clergyman
"THE NEXT NEW MARRIAGE."


New York Illustrated News
March 09, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a magician
"AH! --'LINCOLN'S COMING.'"


New York Illustrated News
April 12, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a physician
"DOCTOR LINCOLN'S NEW ELIXIR OF LIFE--FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES."


New York Illustrated News
April 02, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a farmer
"MR. LINCOLN'S GREAT NATIONAL JOKE--TRYING TO MAKE THE REBELS ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN."


The Phunny Phellow
June 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a bootblack
"S---D, THE BOOTBLACK, GIVES AN OPINION:"


Strong's Campaign Pictorial
November 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a jockey
- Richmond, Dean, 1804-1866, as a jockey
"GREAT FALL RACES 1860."


The Southern Illustrated News
January 31, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a schoolmaster
"SCHOOLMASTER LINCOLN AND HIS BOYS."


The Southern Illustrated News
February 27, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a musician
"I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE!"


Vanity Fair
September 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter


Vanity Fair
November 03, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a surgeon
"WONDERFUL SURGICAL OPERATION,"


Vanity Fair
November 17, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a stable master
- Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863, as a jockey
"COMING `ROUND."


Vanity Fair
March 23, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as an acrobat
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a clown
"PROF. LINCOLN IN HIS GREAT FEAT OF BALANCING."


Vanity Fair
March 15, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863, as a thief
"JEMMY TWITCHER FLOYD."


Vanity Fair
April 12, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a cooper
"COOPERATION."


Vanity Fair
September 06, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, as a minstrel musician
"THE MONOTONOUS MINSTREL."


Vanity Fair
November 15, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a sailor
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a ship's pilot
"THE PILOT IN A SQUALL."


Vanity Fair
November 22, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a train engineer
- Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, as a train crewman
"KEEP ON THE TRACK!"


Wide-Awake Pictorial
November 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
"THE LAST RAIL SPLIT BY "'HONEST OLD ABE.'"


Wide-Awake Pictorial
November 01, 1860

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


Wide-Awake Pictorial
November 01, 1860

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a rail-splitter
"THE BATTLE IN NEW YORK."


Yankee Notions
April 01, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a physician
"HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT."


Yankee Notions
July 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Foote, Andrew Hull, 1806-1863, as the chief cook
[MASSA FOOTE. AND MASSA LINCOLN.]


Yankee Notions
December 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885, as a porter
"DEMOCRATIC BREAKDOWN."


Yankee Notions
January 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863, as a thief
"THE SECESH MOVEMENT."


 

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