Uncle Sam's menagerie, published by G. Guerner, Washington CD, 1865 by American School
© Bridgeman Art Library / American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Uncle Sam's menagerie, published by G. Guerner, Washington CD, 1865
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- American School
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- AQS336733
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Jefferson Davis (1808-89), President of the Confederacy, as a hyena, in cage with noose around neck. Uncle Sam points to skull labelled Booth. "Gallow's Birds" are associates of John Wilkes Booth (1828-65), assassin of Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th President of the USA: Michael O'Laughlin, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Paine, Mary E. Surratt, Sammuel Arnold, Edman Spangler, Samuel Mudd. Issued after Lincoln's assassination;
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