Breaking that backbone"" – Historic Reproduction
![Breaking that backbone"", [New York] : Pub'd. by Currier & Ives, Nassau St., N.Y. [1862 or 1863] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa3f0a442a16-L.webp)
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A window into the past: Breaking that backbone"", preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Breaking that backbone""
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Breaking that backbone" is a wartime political cartoon whose title suggests a picture of decisively breaking the enemy's strength, a theme common in Northern caricature during the Civil War. Currier & Ives published the lithograph from its Nassau Street office in New York, probably in late 1862 or early 1863, and it is signed "BDay del." for Benjamin H. Day Jr., a caricaturist who worked for the firm. Inexpensive prints like this reached a broad audience, so they show how ordinary readers were invited to see the war and its leaders.
| Created / published | [New York] : Pub'd. by Currier & Ives, Nassau St., N.Y. [1862 or 1863] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27 x 34 cm. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signed: BDay del. [Benjamin H. Day, Jr.] Printed late 1862 or early 1863. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 731 Weitenkampf, p. 135 Wilson, p. 188-189 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-8. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120055 |
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