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Custodial History

Originally Acc. No. 1957.58, an addition to the Civil War Collection.

Scope and Contents

This collection is a booklet of anti-Union cartoons drawn by an unidentified "quondam Virginian." The drawings include the following titles: The Flight from Harrisburg, Lincoln at Dinner. Meditating on the division of the spoils, Gen Winfield shooting off the big guns of the government with the recent inaugural for a porte-fire, "The Virginia Dare -(not)" Ship of the line, and "Last scene of all that ends this strange Pictorial History. Virginia's degradation." A schematic on the back of the final cartoon appears to be of the College Building (Wren Building) at the College of William and Mary. The back cover has a pencil map of the the Tidewater area, including King's Creek, Poquoson, and further east.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Political cartoons
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.)