Item Info
Item No: pdca00050
Title: The Chicago Platform, What is it, Peace or War
Additional Title: Candidates: Ingersoll; Reed; Vallandigham; Pendleton; McClellan; Wood; Seymore
Media Type:
Lithographs
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Political cartoon depicting Presidential candidates attempting to support a failing wooden platform, where on the broken planks of wood captions read: "Peace Plank", "Anything or Nothing", "Armistice." , "Secession", "Union", "Disunion".
Notes:
Presidental candidates: Ingersoll, Reed, Vallandigham, Pendleton, McClellan, Wood, and Seymour
Creation Year: ca. 1864
Subjects
- Chicago, Illinois
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940
- Political cartoons
- Political campaigns
- Elections
- Comparative politics
- Ingersoll, Robert G. (Green), 1833 – 1899
- Reed, Thomas Brackett, 1839 - 1902
- Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820 - 1871
- Pendleton, George Hunt, 1825 - 1889
- Wood, Fernando, 1812 - 1881
- Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886