Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: Jeff's war hoops"" – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: Jeff's war hoops"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Jeff's double quick. The last words of the Confederacy: Jeff's war hoops""
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Jeff's double quick" is a sheet music cover that turns Jefferson Davis's capture in May 1865 into a joke about his supposed disguise. Northern newspapers and cartoonists widely reported that Davis had been caught in women's clothing as he fled Union cavalry in Georgia, and the hoop skirt in the title plays on that story. Lee & Walker of Philadelphia issued the piece in 1865, with proceeds going to the Western Sanitary Fairs in Chicago and Milwaukee, charity fundraisers that supported Union soldiers and their families. The olive and black lithograph shows how wartime sheet music could carry political satire into parlors.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 1865. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph printed in olive and black on wove paper ; 30 x 19.8 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870.Sheet music covers 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1865 by Lee & Walker . . . Pa. Philadelphia, Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St. Published for the benefit of the Western Sanitary Fairs of Chicago, Ill. and Milwaukee, Wis. The Library's impression of the sheet music cover was filed for copyright on June 28, 1865. Title appears as it is written on the item. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1865-19. |
| Subjects | Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889--Capture & imprisonment, 1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 970 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169957 |
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