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A TRULY RARE FIND. THIS WAS A SHORT LIVED PUBLICATION AND I WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT!
DATEDMAY 10th 1862
COVER DEPICTS MASS. GOVERNOR JAMES ANDREW
JOHN A. ANDREW, the twenty-sixth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Windham, Maine on May 31, 1818.His education was attained at the Gorham Academy, and later at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1837.He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and then established a successful legal practice in Boston. Andrew entered politics in 1858, serving as a one-term member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.He next won election to the Massachusetts governorship on November 6, 1860, earning the largest vote majority in the state\'s history up to that time. He went on to win reelection in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864. During his tenure, the state prepared to aid the Union in the looming Civil War.Volunteers were raised, as well as arms and provisions.Also, Andrew called for an all black troop to be raised, which was organized as the 54th Regiment, becoming the first unit of its kind. After declining to run for reelection, Andrew left office on January 4, 1866, and retired from political life.He returned to his legal career, where he worked to reform divorce practices.Governor John A. Andrew passed away on October 30, 1867, and was buried in the Hingham Cemetery in Massachusetts.
INSIDE THERE ARE CIVIL WAR RELATED STORIES INCLUDING A PRINT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS BEING THROWN BY A SLAVE TITLED \"THE NEW FRANKENSTEIN\"
Early review:The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil and Cold War: Vanity Fair treatment of race and humor in Vanity Fair, an antebellum periodical that a number of the Pfaff\'s bohemians contributed to. Specifically, considers the irony that, \"while the Bohemians associated with Vanity Fair gladly enlisted in the battle to free humanity from the shackles of social repression\" they did not throw their support behind the abolitionist effort. Instead, the Civil War-era Vanity Fair was marked by pronounced racism towards African Americans, which it expressed through a variety of attempts at humor
Published by Louis H. Stephens a noted Humorist, cartoonist and caricaturist
8.5\"x 11.25\" 10pages New York
Several of the prints have the name Bobbett-Hooper under them
Henry Louis Stephens (February 11, 1824 – December 13, 1882) was an American illustrator.
He was born in Philadelphia. About 1859 he went to New York under an engagement with Frank Leslie, and after a year or so transferred his services to Harper & Brothers. Stephens was a prolific artist, and accomplished a great amount of work for book and magazine illustration.
He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (1858), a book edited by William Evans Burton, Vanity Fair (1859–63), Mrs. Grundy (1869), Punchinello (1870), and other periodicals. He contributed artwork to Mark Twain\'s comic memoir, Roughing It and the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. He illustrated some children\'s books, including Aesop\'s Fables, Death of Cock Robin, and The House that Jack Built; he wrote and illustrated The Goblin Snob (c. 1855), a satirical poem, as well as The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851). He gave some attention also to painting in watercolors, but rarely exhibited his works. He died in Bayonne, New Jersey
THIS EDITOR OF THIS PUBLICATION WAS ARTEMUS WARD WHO STARTED BACK IN 1860. WARD WAS A CLOSE FRIEND TO PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
