Content note: 1864 print with a racial slur in its captions. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Platforms illustrated
Louis Prang & Co. (Boston) two-panel lithograph hostile to McClellan. 'Baltimore': Liberty hands Lincoln his duty beside Sumner, Grant and Farragut. 'Chicago': Vallandigham thrusts a small McClellan onto a cheese-like platform held up by snakes, among Seymour, Wood, a London Times-reading John Bull, and bystanders, one voicing a racial slur.
- Date
- 1864
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Louis Prang & Co.
- 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
