Collection:
Historical Images of Philadelphia

Item No:
pdca00050

Image Title:
The Chicago Platform, What is it, Peace or War

Image Caption:
Candidates: Ingersoll; Reed; Vallandigham; Pendleton; McClellan; Wood; Seymore

Creation Year:
ca. 1864

Media Type:
Lithographs

Notes:

Political cartoon depicting Presidential candidates attempting to support a failing wooden platform, where on the broken planks of wood captions read: "Peace Plank", "Anything or Nothing", "Armistice." , "Secession", "Union", "Disunion". 

Presidental candidates: Ingersoll, Reed, Vallandigham, Pendleton, McClellan, Wood, and Seymour

Source:
Print and Picture Collection

Subjects:

• Chicago, Illinois
• Civil War, 1861-1865
• Comparative politics
• Elections
• Ingersoll, Robert G. (Green), 1833 – 1899
• McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940
• Pendleton, George Hunt, 1825 - 1889
• Political campaigns
• Political cartoons
• Reed, Thomas Brackett, 1839 - 1902
• Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886
• Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820 - 1871
• Wood, Fernando, 1812 - 1881