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Agriculture, Manufactures, Fine Arts
| A crop of hemp on the left is feeding through a spinning wheel with the words: "HEMP FOR TRAITORS NORTH OR SOUTH" on it, and then to a gallows with a noose. Uncle Sam is at the spinning wheel. Below the hemp is the text: "AGRICULTURE," and below the spinning wheel is text: "MANUFACTURES" and below the gallows is: "FINE ARTS." Caption above reads: "Them pesky Treason fellers hev got to hev rope and more tew,' and we mite jest as well be gettin the hemp dewins ready first as last and give 'em full swing." Red and blue ink on beige envelope. Illustration in upper left corner, printed on envelope, mounted on a decorative border and collected in an album. |
| Image ID: | 75992 |
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| Creation Date: | after 1860 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | Civil War illustrated envelopes, 1861-1865 |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2630, Box#1, page 118 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.0625 inches |
| Envelopes printed during Civil War depicting mostly pro-Union and anti-Confederate themes. |
| Hemp |
| Caricatures and cartoons |
| Clothing and dress |
| Hats |
| Spinning-wheel |
| Ephemera |
| Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Men |
| Americana |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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