Passage through Baltimore.

Notes:

Abraham Lincoln, wearing a Scottish Tam O'Shanter cap, peeks out of a railroad freight car. A cat, possibly symbolizing the southern city of Baltimore, arches its back and hisses at Lincoln as he attempts to sneak into town. According to legend, fears of an assassination plot in Baltimore forced the President-elect to travel in disguise through that city on his way to Washington, D.C.; Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 2.; Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.

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Subject Topic:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Caricatures and cartoons.; Animals--Symbolic aspects.; Railroad freight cars--1860-1870.; Costumes--1860-1870.; Cats--1860-1870.; Caricatures and cartoons--United States.; Prints shelf.; James S. Schoff Civil War Collection.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.; Porter & Coates,--publisher.; United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

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