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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Currier & Ives, famed poster lithographers (TIME, Nov. 25), printed a cartoon of Lincoln, being ridden on a rail to a lunatic asylum (the White House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Lincoln was beardless. In October of that year a little girl wrote him asking for an autograph and advising him that fashion favored beards.* Lincoln replied that he thought it would be "a piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...cartoon history was written by Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews. Author Shaw is an able historical scholar, collector of cartoons, and has already published A Cartoon History of Roosevelt's Career. His work is in two volumes, His Path to the Presidency, The Year of His Election. Half the drawings reproduced in the first book do not deal with Lincoln but show the rude state of caricatures in the early 19th century. Famed men of the day are shown in typical guises, Editor James Gordon Bennett as a woolly, aggressive cur, President Buchanan as an Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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