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The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called Woman Order as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862] – Antique Print

The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called Woman Order as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862], 1862 — antique engraving
The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called Woman Order as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862], 1862. Antique engraving from the New Orleans collection.

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A window into the past: The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called Woman Order as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862], preserved in this antique engraving. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called Woman Order as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862]

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Two panels set side by side make this print's joke: before the order, two scowling women spit on a Union officer, and after it, the same officer tips his hat to two smiling, well-dressed ladies. The cartoon refers to Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's May 15, 1862, order, issued while he was military governor of occupied New Orleans, which declared that women who insulted U.S. soldiers would be treated as women of the town plying their trade. Northern newspapers widely mocked the order, and this wood engraving ran in *Harper's Weekly* on July 12, 1862.

Created / published1862
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862 July 12, p. 448. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in cartoons--1862; CW, 1861-1865--Cartoons--1862-July; CW--1861-1865--Fraternization; Civil War, 1861-1865--Women; BI; Caricatures..., American--1862--July; Shelf.
Original scan1,536 × 929 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139740

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