George Coffin papers,
MS2048
Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University
UP0001
7.5 linear feet
1858-1896
Collection includes original political cartoons from Washington newspapers; lithographic reproductions of other political cartoons; original pen and ink illustrations of civil war stories; scrapbooks containing original political cartoons, lithographic reproductions of cartoons, original sketches, and newspaper clippings; diaries; and loose sketches and photographs. These materials date from 1858-1896.
Coffin, George Yost, 1850-1896
Preferred citation
George Coffin papers, Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University.
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Biographical Note
George Yost Coffin (1850-1896) was a prominent Washington D.C. political cartoonist of the late nineteenth century. Coffin came to Washington with his parents in 1858. During the civil war years he was a student at Columbian College (later George Washington University). Following his graduation in 1869 he attended the Columbian University Law School, completing his degree in 1871. In 1872 Coffin found employment as a clerk in the Revenue Marine division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a post which he held until his death in 1896. His career as a political cartoonist started in the mid-1870s with the first illustrated paper in Washington, D.C., the Illustrated Washington Chronicle. After its demise, Coffin contributed freely to a number of journals of politics and humor including Harper's Weekly, Puck, and The Judge, until the Washington weekly, The Hatchet, was started in 1883 and engaged Coffin as its cartoonist. While his tenure there was short-lived, The Hatchet having soon discontinued its pictorial feature, Coffin's artistic stock was on the rise. By the mid-1880s he was contributing cartoons to practically every local paper that printed pictures. At one time Coffin was drawing for The Washington Star, The Critic, The Sunday Herald, The National Republican, The Washington Post, and The National Tribune, as well as for some New York papers representing every shade of political , opinion. In 1891, however, Coffin gave up his free lance work when he became the official cartoonist of The Washington Post. This position he held until his death in 1896 at the age of 46.
Collection Scope and Content
Material in this collection include original political cartoons from Washington newspapers; lithographic reproductions of other political cartoons; original pen and ink illustrations of civil war stories; scrapbooks containing original political cartoons, lithographic reproductions of cartoons, original sketches, and newspaper clippings; diaries; and loose sketches and photographs. These materials date from 1858-1896.
The largest group of materials are the 352 large-size, original political cartoons, 193 of which were published in "The Washington Post" during his tenure as political cartoonist (1891-1896) All but 25 of these have been identified by date and caption. Other publications to which Coffin contributed and which are represented in this collection are "The Washington Hatchet," "The Critic," "The National Tribune," and "The Washington Daily News." These cartoons are not dated or captioned for the most part. Another segment of the collection consists of 61 sets of civil war story illustrations made by Coffin which appeared in separately published personal accounts of the war and in various Washington periodicals in the two decades which followed the American Civil War. The Coffin papers also contain six scrapbooks of original sketches (1858-1869), newspaper clippings of articles illustrated by Coffin (1875-1885), original political cartoons (1880s), lithographic reproductions of cartoons (1890s), and articles published about Coffin after his death. Finally, the collection includes four volumes of Coffin's handwritten diaries (1859-1868), covering the period of his undergraduate years at Columbian College.
The George Y. Coffin papers were the gift of Ms. Isabelle Solomons in June, 1926.
Collection Organization
Organized into five series: Series 1. Political cartoons, 1891-1896; Series 2. Civil War illustrations, 1860s - 1890s; Series 3. Scrapbooks, 1858-1890s; Series 4. Diaries, 1859-1861; and Series 5. Miscellaneous Loose Sketches and Photographs, undated.
Collection note
Please note: there is a paper finding aid available in the reading room that has details for the political cartoons including titles, dates, and sizes. Please see staff for assistance.
Coffin, George Yost, 1850-1896
Columbian College in the District of Columbia.
George Washington University--History.
Autobiography
Cartoonists
Diaries
Newspapers
Photographs
Political satire
Scrapbooks
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Washington (D.C.)
Political Cartoons,
MS2048 Series 1
1891-1896, undated
Scene at the Gridiron Club Banquet Table,
1
1
02/08/1891
The Officers of the Club,
1
2
02/08/1891
A Peripatetic Plenipotentiary,
1
3
05/03/1891
Death in the Mail Car,
1
4
05/17/1891
Home Again - A Warm Welcome From Dame Columbia and Good Citizens and Candidates,
1
5
05/17/1891
None Too Soon,
1
6
06/07/1891
The Lord High Executioner,
1
7
06/28/1891
The Fourth at the District Buildings,
1
8
07/04/1891
Trying the Rain Balloons,
1
9
07/05/1891
Justice Cutting the Wire,
1
10
07/12/1891
On to Washington,
1
11
08/09/1891
The Vacant Seat,
1
12
09/06/1891
Home Again - From Foreign (New Jersey) Shores,
1
13
09/16/1891
A Vision of Two Sisters A.D. 1891,
1
14
09/27/1891
A Gem of Official Literature,
1
15
10/18/1891
Grand Inter-Urban High Kicking Match for the Next Republican Convention,
1
16
11/22/1891
Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner A.D. 1891,
1
17
11/26/1891
The Same Old Circus,
1
18
12/06/1891
Wanted - A Leader for Washington's Four Hundred,
1
19
12/13/1891
Old Tempus Fugit,
1
20
01/03/1892
The Dogs of War,
1
21
01/06/1892
To Arlington,
1
22
01/10/1892
An Early Start,
1
23
01/17/1892
Leap Year A.D. 1892,
1
24
02/28/1892
The British Tweed,
1
25
03/13/1892
The Modern Pilgrim's Progress,
1
26
03/20/1892
An Obdurate Deity,
1
27
04/24/1892
May Day 1892,
1
28
05/01/1892
The Post's Panorama of the Week: Hard Luck,
1
29
06/25/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: The Day We Consecrate,
1
30
06/25/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: Pedestrian Pleasures of Washington,
1
31
06/25/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: Up or Down?,
1
32
06/25/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: A Terrible Warning,
1
33
06/11/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: Perseus and Andromeda,
1
34
06/11/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: A Mourning Queen,
1
35
06/11/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: The Real Issue,
1
36
06/18/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: An Embarrassment of Riches,
1
37
06/18/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: Sympathy that Counts,
1
38
06/18/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Week: A Gory Governor,
1
39
07/16/1893
With the Compliments of the Post to Congress: T.B.R, "Well, Boys, What are you Going to Do About it?",
1
40
08/06/1893
A Run on the Bank,
1
41
08/13/1893
The Congressman's Mid-Summer Night's Dream,
1
42
08/13/1893
The Wanderers' Return,
1
43
08/13/1893
The Post's Panorama of Recent Events: Three of a Kind,
1
44
08/13/1893
The Post's Panorama of Recent Events: The Militiaman and the Mermaid,
1
45
08/13/1893
The Post's Pictorial View of Passing Events: Other Distinguished Arrivals,
1
46
09/03/1893
The Post's Pictorial View of Passing Events: A Case of Suspended Suspensions,
1
47
09/03/1893
The Post's Pictorial Commentary on Things Current and to Come,
1
48
11/26/1893
A Sevendays Summary in Black and White,
1
49
09/23/1894
The Post's Pictorial Pops at Things Past, Present, and to Come,
1
50
09/30/1894
A Fall Back - More Brutality on the Football Field,
1
51
12/08/1894
At the Theatre and Concert,
1
52
12/12/1894
Sprung by Springer,
1
53
12/18/1894
A Merry Christmas to the Patrons of the Post,
1
54
12/25/1894
Wishing You a Happier New Year,
2
1
01/01/1895
A Spasm of Morality,
2
2
01/13/1895
Where will this Air Ship Light?,
2
3
01/14/1895
The Majesty of the Law,
2
4
01/21/1895
And the Cat Came Back!,
2
5
01/23/1895
The Men Who Fought. The Men Who Talk.,
2
6
01/26/1895
The Last of the Seals,
2
7
02/02/1895
The Democratic Shadow,
2
8
02/06/1895
In Nick of Time,
2
9
02/09/1895
Under Charity's Protecting Wing,
2
10
02/10/1895
David's New Toy,
2
11
02/19/1895
Design for Grand Mortuary ument for the New Capitol Terrace,
2
12
02/20/1895
What! Ho! For Mexico!,
2
13
02/21/1895
High Carnival on Capitol Hill,
2
14
02/26/1895
Turn About is Fair Play,
2
15
03/03/1895
Are We Becoming a Nation of Thieves?,
2
16
03/10/1895
The Eclipse of North Carolina,
2
17
03/12/1895
Under the New Law,
2
18
03/14/1895
Our Inhospitable Hospitals,
2
19
03/20/1895
Tarrible Times in ole Vaginny,
2
20
03/23/1895
The Mysterious Three,
2
21
03/31/1895
Praise from Sir Hubert,
2
22
04/07/1895
Weighed in the Balance,
2
23
04/08/1895
A Story Without Words,
2
24
04/26/1895
Higher than Gilderoy's Kite,
2
25
04/27/1895
A Sweeping Charge,
2
26
04/28/1895
Passing it Along,
2
27
04/30/1895
Potatoe - Culture in High Places,
2
28
05/05/1895
An Apotheosis in Trousers,
2
29
05/09/1895
The Eyes of Delaware are on Them,
2
30
05/11/1895
The Little Pilgrim,
2
31
05/15/1895
Right Hand of Citizenship,
2
32
05/17/1895
The Coming Woman,
2
33
05/26/1895
Gresham,
2
34
05/29/1895
Thirty Years After,
2
35
05/30/1895
Some Unseasonable Swelterings,
2
36
06/02/1895
A Ten-Day's Wonder,
2
37
06/08/1895
The New Atlanta,
2
38
06/12/1895
Off For Camp,
2
39
06/13/1895
Mr. Brice Has Gone to Ohio on Important Railroad Business,
2
40
06/15/1895
Reform Run Mad,
2
41
06/16/1895
A Week in June,
2
42
06/23/1895
In the Search-light of Truth,
2
43
06/27/1895
The Day We Celebrate,
2
44
07/04/1895
Midsummer Athletics A.D. 1895,
2
45
07/07/1895
The Unanimous Sentiment,
2
46
07/09/1895
Again the Eagle Bird Wins,
2
47
07/10/1895
Mr. Pfeffer's New Party,
2
48
07/21/1895
The Sea Serpent and the Lighthouse Keeper,
2
49
07/24/1895
Here We Are Again,
2
50
07/31/1895
A "Hill" Horse with a Pull,
3
1
08/08/1895
A High-Roller Comptroller,
3
2
08/09/1895
It is the Caws,
3
3
08/15/1895
An Old Saw Reset,
3
4
08/16/1895
Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless continguity of shade,
3
5
08/18/1895
Under the Shadow of Bunker Hill,
3
6
08/29/1895
A Tale of Two Cities,
3
7
09/04/1895
For the Cup,
3
8
09/08/1895
Seagirt 1895,
3
9
09/10/1895
I don't want to Play in your Yard,
3
10
09/15/1895
Miles Standish's Courtship,
3
11
09/23/1895
A National Calamity,
3
12
10/29/1895
The Political Services of Matthew Stanley Quay,
3
13
11/17/1895
Honor to Whom Honor is Due,
3
14
11/21/1895
They Give Thanks A.D. 1895,
3
15
11/28/1895
The Secretary and the Hayseed,
3
16
12/15/1895
Glad You Agree with Us, Mr. President,
3
17
12/19/1895
If John Came to the Senate,
3
18
12/21/1895
The National Credit,
3
19
12/24/1895
With ey to Burn,
3
20
12/29/1895
Leap Year 1896,
3
21
01/01/1896
The Same Old Senate,
3
22
01/11/1896
Honors are Easy,
3
23
01/18/1896
Engaged B. Harrison,
3
24
01/19/1896
An Undaunted Crusader,
3
25
01/23/1896
Two Patriotic Sons of the District,
3
26
01/29/1896
Columbia's Leap Year Valentine,
3
27
02/14/1896
Post No Bills,
3
28
02/16/1896
None Too Soon,
3
29
02/29/1896
Hoop! La! There They Go. "On a Bicycle Built for Six.",
3
30
03/13/1896
The Post Gallery - no. 13 - The Two Augurs,
3
31
03/15/1896
The Wizard of the Nile,
3
32
03/22/1896
Something Wrong,
3
33
04/04/1896
Honors are Easy. End of the Great Wind-Jamming Contest Way Down in Jaw-Jaw,
3
34
04/15/1896
A Finger in Every Pie,
3
35
04/23/1896
May Day 1896,
3
36
05/01/1896
One More Unfortunate,
3
37
05/03/1896
That's Right, Mr. President; Give ‘Em Fitz,
3
38
05/20/1896
The Swan Song of the Boss,
3
39
05/23/1896
To the Heroic Dead,
3
40
05/30/1896
The McKinley Cyclone,
3
41
06/01/1896
That Game of "eze Out" in the Senate,
3
42
06/06/1896
"For the Major",
3
43
06/07/1896
Fourth of July Patriotism (limited),
3
44
06/27/1896
The Founder's Dream,
4
1
07/11/1896
"Onward, Christian Soldiers",
4
2
07/13/1896
Saved From the Flood. The Post's Gallery of Modern Masterpieces - no. 17,
4
3
07/19/1896
A Harmless Explosion,
4
4
07/26/1896
Will Hoke Fly?,
4
5
08/02/1896
Oh, say! Is young Lochinvar come out of the west?,
4
6
08/09/1896
His Platform,
4
7
08/11/1896
Again the Lady and the Tiger,
4
8
08/14/1896
"Ye merry birds",
4
9
08/27/1896
Welcome, Li Hung Chiang,
4
10
08/28/1896
"Oh! Wert thou in the cauld, cau'd blast",
4
11
09/05/1896
The unhappy candidate: A reminiscence of capitol park,
4
12
09/22/1896
The country is safe,
4
13
09/25/1896
Alarming Nightmare of the Hon. J. Sterling Morton,
4
14
10/16/1896
Ye merrie joust of arms,
4
15
10/18/1896
In the Balance,
4
16
11/03/1896
The of Austerlitz,
4
17
11/04/1896
"Shake! Billy Bryan!",
4
18
11/04/1896
"Is it all over?",
4
19
11/06/1896
Peace Prosperity Plenty,
4
20
11/08/1896
"Come on, boys; Let's arbitrate",
4
21
11/12/1896
Baltztey Brothers,
4
22
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Urduray,
4
23
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Parks,
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24
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Hay,
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M. M. Parker,
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26
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Boguton,
4
27
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Robert,
4
28
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B.H. Warner,
4
29
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(no title),
4
30
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A Group of Guests,
4
31
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Dame Columbia,
4
32
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The Tiger and the Candidate,
4
33
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Cleveland and the Public Credit,
4
34
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Election Returns at the Post,
4
35
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A High-Handed Outrage,
4
36
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Marching Band,
4
37
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Abdication of Queen Lil,
4
38
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An Ill-Starred Structure,
4
39
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Welcome Endeavorers,
4
40
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In Senate and House,
4
41
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Hail the Coming, Speed the Parting Guest,
4
42
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The Arms of Virginia,
4
43
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When the Smoke of Battle has Cleared Away,
4
44
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The Post's Sketch-Book of the Week,
4
45
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Love and Laughter,
5
1
11/19/1885
Government Printing Office,
5
2
undated
Cleveland and the Issues,
5
3
undated
Thanksgiving 1885,
5
4
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Dead at the Post of Duty,
5
5
01/29/1891
David Crockett and the Coon,
5
6
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A Case of Unstable Equilibrium,
5
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Mail for Gov. Hill,
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Investigating the Silver Pool,
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Known by his Chips,
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Soldiers Orphans,
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11
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Emptying the Reservoir,
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(no title),
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Free Trade and Tin Plates,
5
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Attacking Justice for the Veteran,
5
15
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Rout of Rodes,
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Recollections of Sherman,
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Pap Thomas to the Rescue,
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Ringing a Bell,
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Leaving for War,
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Fire,
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Charge,
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Extract from Gen. Wainwright's Report,
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Pension Lie,
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Street vs. Sidewalk,
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25
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The Statue of Liberty,
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Military Parade,
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27
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Advancing Women's Organizations,
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28
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Uncle Sam to Congress,
5
29
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Winning with Hands Down,
5
30
10/18/1884
X-mas '84,
5
31
1884
The District Commission,
5
32
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Explosion,
5
33
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Leaving Cleveland in the Dust,
5
34
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Baltimore or Bust,
5
35
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W. & G. R.R.,
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36
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Excelsior,
5
37
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An Official Inspecting Tour,
5
38
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Spending the Surplus,
5
39
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Arresting a Boy,
5
40
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District Commission,
5
41
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Women Running the Country,
5
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The Spectre of the Aqueduct,
5
43
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A Record that does not Record,
5
44
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The Washington Hotel Keeper's Dream,
5
45
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Reform at U.S. Treasury,
5
46
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The Political Millennium,
5
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A New Era,
5
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The Rifles' Fair 1885,
5
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1885
Cape May, NJ,
6
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Inauguration Day 1889,
6
2
1889
An Entirely Amicable and Harious Contest,
6
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Easter Egg Rolling,
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The Aesthete, the Boss, and the Widow,
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In the Dark and Bloody Ground,
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The Free Trade Phonograph,
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Walpurgis Night,
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Uncle Sam's Tavern,
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How it is Done!,
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The Veteran,
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In a Congenial Role and yet He is not Happy,
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A Tub to the Whale,
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Easy Winners,
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A Cold Day,
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(no title),
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A Good-Natured Giant,
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Remembering Lincoln,
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The G.O.P Indulges in a Gigantic Jag of Joy!,
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The Judgment of Paris,
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A Long Range Enthusiast,
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Manhattan Day at the Fair,
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Congratulations! Mr. President,
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Eager for the Fray,
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Saved from the Deep,
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Stabbed in the House of His ends,
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10th Annual Dinner of the Gridiron Club,
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Moving the Capitol,
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Our National Disgrace,
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The Canal Boy of Ohio,
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(no title),
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Which Pill Will He Take,
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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A Military Execution,
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The White Elephant,
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(no title),
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Exit Brewster,
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A Quintette Worth Many Millions,
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Columbus Discovering (South) America From the East Front of the Capitol,
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(no title),
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(no title),
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Neck and Neck,
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(no title),
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(Title illegible),
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(Title illegible),
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(no title),
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Puck's Bad Boy,
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06/28/1884
(no title),
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Over the Garden Wall,
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(no title),
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(no title),
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Post and McPherson,
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(no title),
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How He Has Put his Foot In It,
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No Paralysis Here,
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Another of Cleveland's Vices,
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Ye Spanish Don/Ye American Farmer,
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Not So Heavy as it Looks,
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(no title),
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A Diplomatic Episode,
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Consulting the Oracle,
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Around the Week in Washington,
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(no title),
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The Nation's Vampire,
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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Presented At Court,
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At the Tomb of Grant,
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The Chicago Grab-Bag,
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Taking His Medicine,
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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(no title),
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Inter-State Commerce,
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(no title),
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(no title),
7
44
undated
(no title),
7
45
undated
The New Statue,
7
46
undated
A Coolness Between Them,
8
1
undated
Why don't it Drop?,
8
2
undated
Cock of the Week: The Democratic Rooster to the American Eagle and Thanksgiving,
8
3
undated
(no title),
8
4
undated
(no title),
8
5
undated
(no title),
8
6
undated
(no title),
8
7
undated
The Great National Quadrennial Game of Ninepins,
8
8
undated
The Little German Cemetery,
8
9
undated
The Day of Small Things,
8
10
undated
(no title),
8
11
undated
The Colossus of Roads,
8
12
undated
(no title),
8
13
undated
Thanksgiving Good Wishes 1885,
8
14
1885
Ye Golden Summertide,
8
15
undated
That Giddy Old Widow Again,
8
16
undated
(no title),
8
17
undated
That Sherman Statue,
8
18
undated
(no title),
8
19
undated
(no title),
8
20
undated
A Commendable Resolve,
8
21
undated
When Italy has Captured America,
8
22
undated
The Political Lazarus Begging fro the Crumbs from the Rich Man's Table,
8
23
undated
General Washington to General Greeley...,
8
24
undated
The Political Debutante,
9
1
05/24/1891
Mere Midsummer Madness,
9
2
07/19/1891
The Point of View,
9
3
11/01/1891
Columbia's Leap Year Valentine,
9
4
02/14/1892
After Service,
9
5
05/17/1892
The Post's Panorama of the Topics of the Week,
9
6
06/18/1893
The Post's Panorama of the Topics of the Week,
9
7
07/09/1893
The Prodigal's Return,
9
8
11/30/1893
A Happy New Year 1894,
9
9
12/31/1893
The Lady or the Tiger? A Question Recently Solved,
9
10
11/11/1894
Some Random Opinions of a Recent Disturbance,
9
11
11/15/1894
Watchman! Tell us of the Night,
9
12
12/04/1894
A Fin d'Siecle Reconciliation Right off the Gridiron,
9
13
01/27/1895
Masterpieces of Modern Art No. 2 The Vestal Tuccia,
9
14
02/03/1895
Stabbed in the House (and Senate) of his ends,
9
15
02/15/1895
"Pollice Verso" After the Famous Picture by Gerome,
9
16
02/17/1895
The Busy B's,
9
17
03/02/1895
Procession of the Sacred Bull,
9
18
03/09/1895
Proposed Group of Trilby Statuary for Portico of the Executive Mansion,
9
19
04/14/1895
Perhaps Sorry He Spoke,
9
20
04/21/1895
The "Forecaster" That Runs the Bureau,
9
21
07/11/1895
And the Wind Blew Through Their Wiskers,
9
22
07/28/1895
Harrison and Grace Before Meat,
9
23
10/02/1895-10/04/1895
The Balance of Power,
9
24
10/16/1895
Halloween Ag Statesmen,
9
25
11/01/1895
A Scriptural Incident: The Prophet, the Ass, and the Angel - Numbers, XXII - 30,
9
26
11/10/1895
Hansel and Gretel A la Mode,
9
27
11/24/1895
That Motherly Old Lady on the Dome,
9
28
12/01/1895
Here It Comes,
9
29
12/03/1895
A Scoop on Santa Claus,
9
30
12/22/1895
Our Good end - The Bear,
9
31
12/27/1895
(no title),
9
32
undated
A Tied-Waiter of the Administration,
9
33
01/03/1896
After the Holidays,
9
34
01/04/1896
Things Theatrical,
9
35
01/05/1896
Almost Big Enough for Recognition,
9
36
01/10/1896
From "The Children's Book",
9
37
01/13/1896
Four Wealthy Towns Contend For Homer Dead; Through which the Living Homer Begged His Bread,
9
38
01/15/1896
The South Carolina Cyclone,
9
39
01/31/1896
Nero,
9
40
02/02/1896
Down and Out,
9
41
02/05/1896
Cleopatra Brought Before Caesar,
9
42
02/07/1896
The Perpetual Adoration of Grover,
9
43
02/08/1896
Perhaps Mr. Bayard was Right,
9
44
02/09/1896
Post No Bills,
9
45
02/16/1896
Horatius At the Bridge,
9
46
02/20/1896
I Want Yer, Ma Honey! I do.,
9
47
02/21/1896
As Dead as Julius Caesar,
9
48
02/27/1896
Cadmus and the Dragon's Teeth,
9
49
03/01/1896
A Story Without Words,
9
50
03/09/1896
Two Rival Side Shows,
9
51
03/14/1896
Doing the Split,
9
52
03/20/1896
Sulking In the Tents,
9
53
03/21/1896
Warned Off. But Nevertheless and Notwithstanding.,
9
54
03/25/1896
A Solitary Horseman,
9
55
03/26/1896
That Deadly Dope,
9
56
04/02/1896
54th Congress. A Post Poster For Easter.,
9
57
04/05/1896
Egg-Rolling At the White House,
9
58
04/06/1896
A Long Lead,
9
59
04/09/1896
A Florida Enchantment,
9
60
04/10/1896
The Old Sexton,
9
61
04/17/1896
Patience,
9
62
04/19/1896
Whistling in the Dark,
9
63
04/25/1896
The Wailing Place of the Bosses,
9
64
05/09/1896
Apropos of Statuary,
9
65
05/14/1896
The Prodigal's Return,
9
66
05/21/1896
Hard Luck,
9
67
05/22/1896
Nothing Left,
9
68
05/27/1896
Too Much Silver Lining,
9
69
06/02/1896
The McKinley Flying Machine,
9
70
06/05/1896
Getting on the Bandwagon,
9
71
06/14/1896
Getting Together on the Platt-Form,
9
72
06/16/1896
The Standard Bearer,
9
73
06/19/1896
There's a Sweet Little Cherub That Sits Up Aloft to Look Out for the Life of Our Bill,
9
74
06/20/1896
In Blocks of Four,
9
75
06/25/1896
The Busy "Bs" that Buzz Beneath the Bonnet of Dame Democracy,
9
76
07/02/1896
As It was Written,
9
77
07/03/1896
The Modern Joshua,
9
78
07/16/1896
A Year of Splits,
9
79
07/22/1896
Trilby Redivivus,
9
80
07/27/1896
Come Now, Major, This Ostrich Business Won't Do,
9
81
07/30/1896
Between Three Stools,
9
82
08/01/1896
Proud as a Peacock with Two Tails,
9
83
08/05/1896
"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them",
9
84
08/06/1896
An Uneven Contest,
9
85
08/16/1896
Pygmalion and Galatea,
9
86
08/18/1896
A Fog-Horn Conclusion,
9
87
08/20/1896
Billy Wants a Gracker? Nit.,
9
88
08/23/1896
W(e)ary William McKinley,
9
89
08/24/1896
By Balloon to the Pole,
9
90
08/30/1896
Mr. Harrison- "I thought I heard a Noise",
9
91
09/02/1896
In East Capitol Park,
9
92
09/06/1896
The Knetpp Cure Up to Date,
9
93
09/07/1896
Candidate Billy's Busy Day,
9
94
09/13/1896
Some Casual Cartoonlets,
9
95
09/16/1896
Distressing Predicament of the Hon. John Boyd Thacher,
9
96
09/26/1896
In the Hands of Their ends,
9
97
09/27/1896
The Passing of Li Hung Bryan,
9
98
09/28/1896
Senator Hill Says He Would Rather See the Democratic Party - Well, Any way, That's What the Senator Says,
9
99
09/29/1896
The Crime of '96,
9
100
10/02/1896
Overmatched,
9
101
10/04/1896
MacBeth and the Witches,
9
102
10/15/1896
What! Wheat?,
9
103
10/20/1896
Lots of Fun,
9
104
10/23/1896
A Questionable Business,
9
105
10/24/1896
"The Philistines Be Upon Thee, Samson.",
9
106
10/29/1896
A Cabinet Officer's Nightmare,
9
107
11/02/1896
Civil War Illustrations,
MS2048 Series 2
1860s-1880s
Gertrude Amberger,
10
1
undated
Arctic Storm,
10
2
undated
Bon Marche,
10
3
undated
Buell,
10
4
undated
Bull Run,
10
5
undated
Captain Michael,
10
6
undated
Chancellorsville,
10
7
undated
Ego,
10
8
undated
Eighth Page,
10
9
undated
Exciting Adventures,
10
10
undated
Fire Zouave,
10
11
undated
First Article,
10
12
undated
Fuel Beans,
10
13
undated
The Guntown Trip,
10
14
undated
How I won My Wife,
10
15
undated
Ill-Fated,
10
16
undated
Lonesome Charley,
10
17
undated
Lost Army,
10
18
undated
Loyal Mountaineers,
10
19
undated
The Mysterious Message,
10
20
undated
The National Rifles,
10
21
undated
Phantom Cavalry,
10
22
undated
Prison Life,
10
23
undated
Real Russia,
10
24
undated
Release of Prisoners,
10
25
undated
Sailor's Creek,
10
26
undated
Salisbury,
10
27
undated
The Sanders Raid,
10
28
undated
Shiloh,
10
29
undated
Soldiering,
10
30
undated
Stampeded Yanks,
10
31
undated
The Stay at Home Guards,
10
32
undated
Story,
10
33
undated
Sykes Regulars,
10
34
undated
A Western Battle,
10
35
undated
Wilson's Road,
10
36
undated
Between Two Fires,
10
37
undated
Boy Duke,
10
38
undated
Boy Spy,
10
39
undated
C.C.C.,
10
40
undated
Canned Peaches,
10
41
undated
Capture of Blakely,
10
42
undated
The Cannoneer,
10
43
undated
Chickamauga,
10
44
undated
Fort Harrison,
10
45
undated
Gregg's Cavalry,
10
46
undated
Island No. 10,
10
47
undated
Kentucky Troopers,
10
48
undated
Lincoln,
10
49
undated
Mrs. Logan,
10
50
undated
Minty's Cavalry,
10
51
undated
Gen. Pope,
10
52
undated
The Quaker Scout,
10
53
undated
Siege of Corinth,
10
54
undated
Townsend's Story,
10
55
undated
Tracy Tremmel,
10
56
undated
USS Brooklyn,
10
57
undated
Vanquishing Vicksburg,
10
58
undated
Vicksburg,
10
59
undated
Misc. Titled Cartoons,
10
60
undated
Misc. Untitled Cartoons,
10
61
undated
Scrapbooks,
MS2048 Series 3
1858-1890s
Scrapbook 1858-69,
11
1
1858-1869
General note
Selected items from this scrapbook are described below. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of the materials within this scrapbook.
Examination,
Item 1
02/11/1863-02/13/1863
Scrapbook,
11
2
1875-1885
Scrapbook,
11
3
1896-1898
Scrapbook 1880s,
12
1
1880 ca.
General note
Selected items from this scrapbook are described below. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of the materials within this scrapbook.
Cartoon: Lincoln and soldiers,
Item 1
1885 ca.
General note
Text on reverse of cartoon: "T. T. #2 Reviewed by the President and Commander-in-Chief, Trib. 1 col"
Scrapbook 1890s,
13
1
1890 ca.
Scrapbook: Cartoons, Washington Post, 1894-95, G. Y. Coffin,
13
2
1894-1895
General note
Selected items from this scrapbook are described below. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of the materials within this scrapbook.
Cartoon: "The Men Who Fought, The Men Who Talk",
Item 1
1895 ca.
Cartoon: "Public hospital",
Item 2
1895 ca.
Cartoon: "Opening of the League Season 1895",
Item 3
1895
Cartoon: "Police Patrol",
Item 4
1895 ca.
Diaries,
MS2048 Series 4
1859-1861
Diaries 1859-68,
14
1
1859-1868
Miscellaneous Loose Sketches and Photographs,
MS2048 Series 5
undated
Youthful Sketches,
15
1
1858-1861
General note
Selected items from this folder are described below. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of the materials within this folder.
Sketch: "Railroad cars",
Item 1
1858 ca. --1861 ca.
Sketch: "The Happy Family",
Item 2
1858 ca. --1861 ca.
Sketches,
15
2
1865
Sketches,
Item 1
1865
Sketches,
Item 2
1866
Sketches,
Item 3
1868
Sketches,
Item 4
1869
Sketches,
Item 5
1870
Sketches,
Item 6
1872
Sketches,
Item 7
1873
Sketches,
Item 8
1874
Sketches,
15
3
undated
Sketches,
Item 1
undated
Sketches,
Item 2
undated
Sketches,
Item 3
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
15
4
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 1
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 2
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 3
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 4
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 5
undated
Initial Letter Drawings,
Item 6
undated
Loose cartoons,
Item 7
undated
Large Cartoons,
15
5
1885
Photographs,
15
6
undated
Photograph: George Yost Coffin,
Item 1
undated
General note
Text on photograph: "George Y. Coffin"
Photograph: George Yost Coffin,
Item 2
undated
General note
Text on photograph: "George Y. Coffin"
Framed cartoon,
15
7
1870
General note
[inscription on cartoon:] "A Strictly Authentic Portrait of the Eminent Artist G.Y. Coffin - May 8th 1870 - Ipse delineavit [drawn by himself]"