Symbols, supernatural and mythological figures
Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
December 01, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Electoral majority (1864) as a giant
"THE GIANT MAJORITY CARRYING ABE LINCOLN SAFELY THROUGH TROUBLED WATERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE."


Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun
March 01, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- Millen prison camp as ghosts
"OLD MR. SECESH PREFERS ANNIHILATION TO SALVATION IN THE UNION BOAT. IN HIS RAPID DESCENT HE SEES SOME AGREEABLE VISIONS."


Punch
October 10, 1863

Sub-entries:  
- Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889, as Scylla
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Charybdis
- Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865, as Ulysses


Punch
December 03, 1864

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as a phoenix
"THE FEDERAL PHOENIX."


Punch
March 25, 1865

Sub-entries:  
- British ironworkers as Vulcan
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Mars
"VULCAN IN THE SULKS."


Fun
October 18, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Jupiter
- Southerner as Ajax
"THE PENNY JUPITER."


Nick-Nax
November 01, 1862

Sub-entries:  
- Emancipation Proclamation as a bogy
"BOGY FOR A BAD BOY."


The Phunny Phellow
September 01, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Civil War compromise as a monster with three heads (fraud, idiocy, and fear)
"THE RECEPTION THE MONSTER COMPROMISE MET WITH IN WASHINGTON."


Vanity Fair
January 19, 1861

Sub-entries:  
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, as Afrite
"THE RISING OF THE AFRITE."


 

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