Political Cartoons and Illustrations

Cartoons and illustrations depicting political events, social commentary, and public sentiments from the 19th century.

Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P., President of the Irish Land League, addressing a meeting | Library of Congress

Mm nose. The owners in front of the commune decree on rents.

Image on the front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 25, 1875, presents commentary supporting the Southern Democrats illegal behavior on the opening day of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Jan. 4, 1875. Harper's and Leslie's nationally distributed newspapers, leaned respectively toward the Republican Party and Democratic Party political positions (BSLOC_2019_6_22)

Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P., President of the Irish Land League, addressing a meeting | Library of Congress

Show of Hands for a Liberal Candidate: Electioneering and Bribery with those with a vote holding up their hands to catch the money a Parliamentary candidate is throwing out to them. Cartoon by George Cruikshank published 1843.

La Mort Du / Duc de Berry. / Assassiné à Paris Le 13 Février 1820 / Death of the / Duke of the Berry. / Killed in Paris on February 13, 1820. Sheet with 6 shows on the murder of Karel Ferdinand van Berry on February 13, 1820 in Paris. Under every performance a caption in Dutch and in French. Numbered at the top right: n. 47 B.

A CAMPAIGN OF " CHANGES."., 1880, 19th century engraving, USA, America

The letter of the president.

To compensate, At the upcoming opening of the Reichsrath, Caricatures on political contemporary events, Menyhért Gf, Lónyay, Franz Karl Frh, Von Becke and Sixtus Plützerl discuss the compensation debts, Napoleon III in the House of Representatives, Eugen Alexander Megerle von Mühlfeld defends his marriage law from Figaro, Unknown

'Our Indian Policy', 1875 political cartoon by Austrian-American cartoonist, Joseph Keppler. An Indian Agent resembling Interior Secretary Columbus Delano, distributes an empty rifle crate, insect infested beef, and 'Shoddy' blankets to Native Americans. In the background is Caleb Marsh, who received $12,000 a year in kickbacks from the Fort Sill trading post, of which he gave half to the wife of Secretary of War, William Belknap (BSLOC_2018_10_151)

The friends of humanity laying the axe to the upas tree of slavery, which is ever loaded with the sum of all villanies. Illustrations. 1853. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Slavery , United States, Antislavery movements

O.K. | Library of Congress

A piercing piece of loco foco hocus pocus | Library of Congress

Croatian guests at Humorl, Croatian guests at Humorl, Feldzeugmeister Anton Frh, Mollinary by Monte Pastello and his Adlatus Beyer caricature with text from humorous leaves , Carl Angerer -, realization

The pious Mr. All-Bone, taking leave of his directors previous to his departure for Europe , Business panics, Bankers, Allibone, Thomas, 1809-1876, Bank of Pennsylvania

THE FIRST VOTE, by A.R. Waud, 1867, wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly. An elderly African American is at the head of a line of voters waiting to cast their ballots. 1867 heralded the end of Andrew Johnson's 'Presidential Reconstruction' which favored the restoration of white domination of southern civil society. This image celebrates its replacement by 'Congressional Reconstruction', led by the Radical Republicans, and accompanied by military occupation to defend emancipated African Americans civil rights (BSLOC_2019_5_147)

Expulsion of negroes and abolitionists from Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1860 , Abolitionists, Law & legal affairs, Tremont Temple Boston, Mass.

How "The Southern Commissioner" tried to mould sic public opinion in England | Library of Congress

The true Faust in Fol-Dram.

Thunder, lightning and smoke, or, the wind shifted from the north to the east. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 893. Hastings, Warren,1732-1818. , Burke, Edmund,1729-1797. , Fox, Charles James,1749-1806. , Francis, Philip,Sir,1740-1818. , North, Frederick,Lord,1732-1792. , Politics & government,England,1780-1790.

A man who claims to be a philanthropist kicks out at a starving family who have asked for help. Process print after G. Cruikshank, 1848.

Expulsion of negroes and abolitionists from Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1860 , Abolitionists, Law & legal affairs, Tremont Temple Boston, Mass.

Professions, 1873 print Leaf with 4 performances of professions, including musician, merchant, diligence (travel carriage) driver and grocer. Under each image a two -way verse. Numbered at the top right: No. 8. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing crafts and industries. merchant, salesman. musician. street-trader

Note from the Times / 202 correspondent

THE STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES, THE COLLIERS SATURDAY NIGHT, und THE STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES, THE COLLIERS SUNDAY, Seite der Zeitung The Illustrated London News vom , Februar mit Illustrationen zu The Strike in South Wales, Unknown

The boy and his uncle, Aesop's fables revised and improved by the Fairbank Canning Co., Chicago. The boy and his uncle, Aesop's fables revised and improved by the Fairbank Canning Co., Chicago

The draft - an exempt - abundant disqualification. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 295 (1862 August 23), p. 544. Draft resisters, United States, 1860-1870, Recruiting & enlistment, United States, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Recruiting & enlistment, Union.

Explosion of Biddle & Cos. Congress water fount | Library of Congress

METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS ELECTION

The draft - an exempt - abundant disqualification | Library of Congress

Set-to between the champion old tip & the swell Dutcheman of Kinderhook - 1836 a political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay & Henry R. Robinson. Circa 1836. Lithograph print on wove paper. Satirises the presidential campaign of 1836 as a boxing match between Democratic Van Buren and Whig William Henry Harrison. The cartoon obviously favours the Whig candidate, far larger and stronger in the image. (The cartoon contains racially offensive language.)

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS AT GLASGOW, OCTOBER 10, 1874, UK, 1874 engraving

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS: C. CRUIKSHANK: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, OR A VIEW OF THE HUSTINGS WITH FEMALE SUFFRAGE, 1853

Sale of an old furniture, the expenses borne by the seized by decree of the government.

The Multicolor Ministry, Johan Braakensiek, 1908 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. historical persons. bottle of wine. illusionist, conjurer, juggler, 'legerdemain'

Man proclaiming the abolition of spirits to a group of figures on the street, Abolition of spirits in 1838 (series title), print, Serial number, 1/12, collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228, Print from a series of twelve about the abolition of spirits. Below the image a short poem. Above the image the line: 'Prints-Magazijn for the Dutch People', printmaker: Isaac Weissenbruch, after a design by: Jan Weissenbruch (mentioned on object), publisher: Jan Schuitemaker (mentioned on object), printmaker: Netherlands, after design from: Netherlands, publisher: Purmerend, 1838 - 1912, paper, wood engraving, letterpress, page: height 125 mm × width 123 mm, genever, gin, alcoholism

The dissolution of Parliament. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 671. Wilkes, John,1725-1797. , Politics & government,England,1770-1780. , Legislative bodies,England,1770-1780. , Legislators,England,1770-1780. , Carriages & coaches,England,1770-1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

THE TAY BRIDGE DISASTER, 1880

News. / 348. / For a moment ... We make the concession of a railway, but we do not want you to depreciate our sum catses ... (registered title) | News (1856) (title of all)

Southern Netherlands, Brabant Revolution, 1787-1790, Course-Patriotique des Reverberes, D'Alton chased by gallows, verso - stamped, Cartoon in which the Austrian general d'Alton is chased across a square by the Brabant lion and walking gallows with boots and fishhooks. Numbered top right: 43. Part of a large group of prints relating to the events of the Brabant Revolution and the period 1787-1790., print, prent, cartoon, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 180 mm, width 106 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1790, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)

The morning after the election, November 1856 , Presidential elections, Politicians, Newspaper editors, Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890, Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

The illustrated newspaper / ... the crime of Nollet Street

'An Unbeliever', 1886. Artist: Joseph Swain

Prohibition Our country is free & shall remain free! | Library of Congress

News / 62 / in storm times. (IT)

Scene at New York City's naturalization office the day before election. A citizen of undoubted respectability asks a man, 'Do you happen to want a friend who will swear you've been five years a resident' Well dressed men in top hats and suits attempt to win the votes of immigrants. New York City, November 1857.

Newspaper excerpt from Kikeriki caricature, The Sühnhaus is ready, The grave monument for the ring theater victims is not even started, Unknown

The Bribe Refused , Ulysses S, Grant, ex-Senator Doolittle, Horace Greeley, The rejection of bribes from Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper , New York, Matt Morgan -, Caricaturist

The morning after the election, November 1856 , Presidential elections, Politicians, Newspaper editors, Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890, Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

'A Rejected Address', 1854 From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

Gentlemen temporary ministers, take the trouble to sit down! , litografia z serii news w: the charivari Vernier, Charles (1831 1887), Imp. Me. Ve. Aubert (fl. 1847 1868), Aubert et Cie (fl. ca 1840 1860)

Cartoon on a regulation in Utrecht on building and demolishing, 1857; The regulations on building and slope. Cartoon on eccentric consequences and inconsistencies to which a - not adopted Regulation would have led to building and demolition, Utrecht, June-July 1857. Eight separate scenes, each with a caption and a reference to the relevant article.

Lawyers in term designed by Necessity ; executed by Rapacity.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Law & legal affairs,England,1780-1790. , Lawyers,England,1780-1790.

THE GENERAL ELECTION

" A CHANGE IS NECESSARY"" WHO SHOULD WITHDRAW ?"., 1880, 19th century engraving, USA, America

Old Nick's new patent plan to make Nova Scotia Tories, Federals coodies, Hartford conventioners, Nullifiers, National Republican bankites & c | Library of Congress

Candidates from the exempt brigade | Library of Congress

Grrrrand relocation of the constitutional. (Registered title)

O'Connell's call and Pat's reply | Library of Congress

The execution of Margaret Meierhoffer in Newark, New Jersey, Vol. 137, no. 174, p. 9 (detail). text. Illustrations. 1881-01-22. General Research Division. Sports, Crimes, Executions

The house that Jeff built | Library of Congress

Freedom and purity of election!!! : Showing the necessity of reform in the close boroughs , Evictions. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings

Johann Most, a German immigrant and anarchist, speaking at Copper Institute in New York City, April 4, 1887. He advocated the 'propaganda of the deed', acts of violence or destruction that would inspire others to revolution. Wood engraving in FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, April 16, 1887 (BSLOC_2018_2_106)

Conservatoire of Soeur Milanollo, The conservatory of the sisters Maria and Teresa Milanollo, Unknown

The billiard tournament at Chicago, November 15-21; An incident of the small-pox epidemic in Montreal. Illustrations. 1885-11-28. General Research Division. Billiard players, tournaments, Epidemics, Smallpox

The New Union Club. British Cartoon Prints Collection , This record contains unverified data from caption card, Caption card tracings: Cartoons; Blacks; Irish; Pub.

The deplorable state of America or sc--h government , Politics & government, Pandora's box, Britannia Symbolic character, Indians of North America, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Great Britain. Stamp Act 1765

"Your Plan and Mine" 1864 Currier & Ives. "Your Plan and Mine". 1864. Lithograph. Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809-1865 Washington, D.C.). Prints

The blessings of liberty or how to "hook" a "gentleman of color" | Library of Congress

Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.

Political firmament , Government policy, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

A female suffrage fancy / J. Keppler. | Library of Congress

Cartoon advocating the use of photograph to identify political agitators in Ireland during the 1890s. Dated 19th Century

Jeff wants to get away, A Lady (composer), Endress & Compton, Saint Louis, 1864., United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Songs and music, Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, Songs and music, Songs with piano, Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, Caricatures and cartoons, Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875, Songs and music, Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875, Caricatures and cartoons, Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888, Songs and music, Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888, Caricatures and cartoons, African Americans, Caricatures and cartoons, Popular Songs of the Day, Songs and Music, War and Conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Music associated with the Union side, sheet music

The general confession of Napoleon / Republic (IT)

A Peep at the Future 1844. A Whig fantasy on the supposed outcome of the 1844 election. James S. Baillie

Things as They Are 1849. picture of conditions in the goldfields of California during the 1849 Gold Rush contains a backhanded swipe at the outgoing Polk administration. Henry Serrell & S. Lee Perkins

Excuse ground of the World Exhibition Baron Schwarz, Wilhelm Frh, Von Schwarz-Senborn, General Director of the Vienna World Exhibition, shows the Viennese their backs to turn to the strangers title page of Kikeriki , Friedrich Graetz Grätz - , Caricaturist, Carl Angerer -, realization

John Bull intolerant of the rights of slaves since the Southern rebellion Date: 1861

Prince Leo Sapieha , Fürst Leo Sapieha, Board of Directors of Galicia, Traut Ofenheim, General Director of the Lemberg-Czernowitzer Eisenbahn and Karl Giskra title page of Der Floh , Henri Demare -, Caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, Engraver

Anti annexation procession | Library of Congress

Cartoon on a new tax in Amsterdam, 1856, 1856 print Cartoon on a new tax according to the digestion, introduced in Amsterdam, March 14, 1856. Centrally an emblematic flourishing trading city with attributes of trade, banners and a crowing rooster. Two rows of taxpayers who give their opinion on income tax on either side. At the top of the city coat of arms of Amsterdam. Amsterdam paper tax payment Amsterdam

Regency dandies visit Kings Bench debtors prison, Southwark. Inmates exercise in a yard surrounded by 30ft walls. A trader rents rackets and balls, others bring beer and gin. Kings Bench. Tom and Bob taking a peep at Real Characters in the Abbots Priory. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egans Life in London.

Robbing him of his good name, USA, America, 19th century engraving

Grand army of the republic march, Turner, J. W. (composer), Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, 1869., United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Songs and music, Marches (Piano), Grand Army of the Republic, Songs and music, Popular Songs of the Day, Songs and Music, War and Conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Music associated with the Union side, sheet music

An analysis of modern patriotism performed by public opinion & displayed by public indignation PH crossed out ; AW sct.. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 854. Fox, Charles James,1749-1806. , Politics & government,England,1780-1790. , Public speaking,England,1780-1790. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

Terrible fire of charity bazaar.

Satire. Magazine 'La Flaca', 1 August 1869. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

"Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler", Political Cartoon, J.L. Magee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1856

Trace du percement de l'Isthme de Suez: -Les locataires des pyramides expropriés pour cause d'utilité publique.. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1856. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Bagging the game | Library of Congress

The key of Paris / large daily universal newspaper.

Duel between two students from Deventer, 1839; Académiciennes Recueil d'évènements Contemporaies. UN Duel à Deventer. Cartoon over a duel between Corneillepreneur and Clairement, two students from Deventer, 1839. With French and Dutch caption and a quote from Alexandre Dumas. Numbered at the top right: No. 1.

United States: 1900 The front cover of the 'Police Gazette', the most widely read weekly in 1900.

Plate VII. The Bottle has done its work - it has destroyed the infant and the mother, the boy and the girl are left destitute and thrown on the streets, and has left the father a hopeless maniac. , Alcoholism, Mentally ill persons, Families. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings

The pious Mr. All-Bone, taking leave of his directors previous to his departure for Europe , Business panics, Bankers, Allibone, Thomas, 1809-1876, Bank of Pennsylvania

SAGASTA , PREXADES MATEO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. TORRECILLA DE CAMEROS 1827 - 1903. PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO. CARICATURA EN LA REVISTA SATIRICA " LA CAMPANA DE GRACIA " , SOBRE EL TEMA DE LAS ELECCIONES.

News. / 338. / The tenramid tenants expropriated for public utility. (Registered title) | News (1856) (registered title)

THE ADVENTURES OF THE REV. ARCHIBALD JONES".

THE DEFEAT OF THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT ON MR. JESSE COLLINGS' AMENDMENT TO THE ADDRESS, CHARACTER SKETCHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON, UK, 1886

The abolition of slavery / meeting / (20 December 1848) (IT)

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