Content note: 1864 anti-Lincoln print including a severed Black head. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before
Currier & Ives lithograph, probably drawn by Louis Maurer, hostile to Lincoln. Lincoln sleeps under a star-spangled sheet and dreams of Columbia (Liberty), holding aloft a severed Black head, kicking him out of the White House as McClellan walks in with his valise. Lincoln flees in the Scotch cap and cloak of the 1861 Baltimore story, carrying a scroll marked 'To whom it may concern' and saying 'This don't remind me of any joke!!'.
- Date
- September 1864
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Currier & Ives (probably drawn by Louis Maurer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Lincoln Administration
- Leader
- Abraham Lincoln
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1864 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1864; work is over 160 years old)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
