Category: History - American
|Plate Number One--This cartoon, "Lincoln à la Blondin," which appeared in _Harper's Weekly_, on August 25, 1860, seems to have been suggested by Blondin's crossing of Niagara on a tight rope with a man on his back--an event then fresh in the public mind. It also recalls an in...
|Plate Number One--This cartoon, "Lincoln à la Blondin," which appeared in _Harper's Weekly_, on August 25, 1860, seems to have been suggested by Blondin's crossing of Niagara o...
2. Part 2The Polish insurrection, then in progress, furnishes the motive of this cartoon, which serves to recall the good will shown by Russia for the Union, when it stood without other...