Civil War Ephemera Reveal Wartime Humor and Envelopes
A historical note on Civil War ephemera from Charles Moreau cataloging envelopes used by New York firms for postage change and satire. It mentions familiar union generals on tobacco labels and a tale about Lorenzo Delmonico’s fright amid small wartime envelopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Charles C. Moreau
New York City
Park Barracks
City Hall
New York
Lorenzo Delmonico
Chambers Street
Broadway
War Time Envelopes Chronicle Confederate Sentiment and Satire
The piece surveys wartime postal materials and scrip from the Confederacy, detailing patriotic designs on envelopes and paper. It notes depictions of flags, the phrase colors that will not run, and tributes to Jackson, Ellsworth, and Dix, with anti-Union and pro-Confederate imagery and references to traitors and battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confederacy
Unite States
Dix
Clay
Andrew Jackson
Webster
General Dix
Young Ellsworth
Zouaves
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln
Davis
Richmond
Jeff Davis
Virginia
War era political caricatures on Postal Envelopes
A description of satirical Confederate and Union imagery on Civil War era envelopes with depictions of Beauregard Davis Uncle Sam John Bull and Mephistopheles. The piece notes strong anti Republican and pro Confederate sentiment with stamps portraits and slogans as well as a Memorial Day poem by Joel Banton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncleo Sam
John Bull
Beauregard
Harper’s Ferry
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Sam
Wise
Mephistopheles
Napoleon III
Gladstone and His Times as Caricature Subjects
A survey of William Ewart Gladstone’s portrayal in Punch from 1859 to the present, noting how John Leech Tenniel Linley Sambourne and Harry Furniss captured his moods and the high collar caricature. The piece recounts Gladstone’s dinners with editors, clashes with royalty, his spirited speeches, and a detailed chronology of his career up to 1897, including battles over the Irish question and cabinet roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Punch
John Leech
John Tennel
Linley Sanbourne
Harry Furniss
Furniss
Mr. Furniss
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Salisbury
England
Joe
Petz
Statesman
W. E. Gladstone
Liverpool
Christ’s Church
Oxford
Newark
Duke of Newcastle
Wilde
Handley
Society of Lincoln's Inn
Robert Peel
the Treasury
Peel
Macaulay
Lord John Russell
Sir Robert Peel
Disraeli
Ionian Islands
Greece
France
Cobden
Palmerston
Lord Russell
Derby
Ireland
House of Commons
John Maguire
Wright
Lancashire
Greenwich
Keeley cure risks and relief in humorist talk
A humorous exchange notes the risks of the Keeley cure and the appeal of relief from effort, imagining a camel surviving nine days without eating as a boast of endurance. The dialogue contrasts extreme exertion with the supposed ease of cure and relief.
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Arue
Jackson
Ellsworth
Marseillaise
South Carolina
Washington
Bull Run
Dixie
George
Martha Washington
Carroll
Carrollton
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
John Adams
New Orleans
Martha McCulloch Williams
Joel Banton
William Ewart Gladstone
Gladstone and
the Queen
Clothier’s
The
Boston Patent Pants Co
Rex
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
S. Fowler
Maynard
H. S. Richardson
Keeley
Gittin
Jour
Muddy Rhodes
EE. H. Maker
Concord Mass
T. F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Mas
D. Dilmore
Maynard's Block
Victor
W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
Sal L
Jeremiah Sheehan
Hapgood
Stow
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
Hale
Maynard ST
Acton
Renest Hosmer
D. D
Walden Street
J. C. Friend
Coxcorp Jumxerton
Mass
J. F. Meade
Florist
Barrett Mill Road
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