The Era " Fall-Down-Funny Thread " Thread

[JPK Huson 1863]

What do you have? Any era cartoon, check copyright- nearly all are expired except those whose relatives kept them. ( Sneddon relatives, for example, sold his paintings which have been republished. His maps were government property. ) OR an era joke- we've had ' Civil War Humor ' before, feel free to repost. Or anecdote.

We could use a belly laugh.

As ever, found this looking for something else. No idea on context- immediately thought either politics or a notorious female. No, not an anti-chick statement. I've been talked onto a life support gurney, too. And would have pulled my own plug if she hadn't been standing on it. LoC, prints and photographs.

 

[1stMN]

I'm guessing political, but the chatty female approach could be funny too I take no offense to that in the least, hehe.

 

[1stMN]

Here is one I found on Wikimedia...quite funny if you ask me, enjoy!
Credit: Wikimedia, Library of Congress Website, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-82807

 

[Yankeedave]

On the tables next McClellan and Johnston are bottles of booze? The fellow behind Mac is downing something. Why do the yanks have more bottles??! Northern industrial might i guess.

 

[Mike Serpa]

What do you have? Any era cartoon, check copyright- nearly all are expired except those whose relatives kept them. ( Sneddon relatives, for example, sold his paintings which have been republished. His maps were government property. ) OR an era joke- we've had ' Civil War Humor ' before, feel free to repost. Or anecdote.

We could use a belly laugh.

As ever, found this looking for something else. No idea on context- immediately thought either politics or a notorious female. No, not an anti-chick statement. I've been talked onto a life support gurney, too. And would have pulled my own plug if she hadn't been standing on it. LoC, prints and photographs.

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Election year?

 

[1stMN]

On the tables next McClellan and Johnston are bottles of booze? The fellow behind Mac is downing something. Why do the yanks have more bottles??! Northern industrial might i guess.

They have more and a soldier is swiping one

 

[Yankeedave]

It looks like they are drinking and throwing stuff at each other from either side of the creek. I would say snow balls, but with that giant sun (sunny skies yet the armies dawdle i guess is the implication) but with the sunny skies they may be throwing rocks.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

I notice on the far left lower corner, it looks as though a soldier is kneeling while presenting a lady in a frilly dress with a bouquet of flowers. Guess they are too busy courting the ladies to be fighting?

Also, I think those are snowballs they are throwing since they look so round and if you notice too the area on the ground looks 'fluffy' and white and then where more people have walked it looks blackish with a path. The sun is clearly out, but is wearing a mocking sort of laugh on his face.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Election year?

Nope at least not according to the Library Congress record on it. It's from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper February 1, 1862. Here's the link - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99614103/

I'm not familiar with Frank Leslie's newspaper, what it political or like Harper's?

 

[Mike Serpa]

Nope at least not according to the Library Congress record on it. It's from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper February 1, 1862. Here's the link - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99614103/

Thanks.

 

[Yankeedave]

Bottom left is (i think) Mr and Mrs Lincoln.

 

[Waterloo50]

This is from a cartoon by John Tenniel in Punch magazine in England 1863, it is highly offensive today but perhaps the English really did feel that a situation such as one in the cartoon could bring about the end of the war. The thing with Punch magazine was that they always managed to reflect public opinion through the use of satire, I think that many of these cartoons are quite invaluable as a tools for assessing public opinion. Before you dismiss this cartoon as racist, it is worth remembering that John Tenniel had learnt ebonics which is clearly reflected in the way in which the two men are talking, I think its also important to consider the message that was being conveyed, I do not for one second believe that this cartoon was trying to poke fun at black soldiers, I think it makes an attempt to highlight the reasons why they shouldn't fight (they had a bond which was difficult to break) it makes an attempt to look at what could happen if the two sides ever met. At the time this was published the Confederates were two years away from allowing black troops in the army. As with all of the cartoons in Punch, it was open to interpretation. Punch magazine ran from 1841 until 2002.

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[James B White]

Maybe everyone else but me already knew this, but I learned from here that the last line is an allusion to "the old English proverb 'When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,' a way of describing a situation in which two sides are so equally matched that neither is likely to prevail."

 

[civilken]

Thank you I can always enjoy a good laugh and I love the cartoon. How true!

 

[Waterloo50]

Maybe everyone else but me already knew this, but I learned from here that the last line is an allusion to "the old English proverb 'When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,' a way of describing a situation in which two sides are so equally matched that neither is likely to prevail."

I wasn't aware of that, now the cartoon makes even more sense.

 

[Waterloo50]

 

[John Hartwell]

Frank Leslie's, June 1862:

 

[John Hartwell]

Punch, Jan 19, 1861:

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Frank Leslie's Newspaper, January 1862

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Holyyyy wow. There are some ' ouch' worthies here. " Chortle "

44th New York in some' fancy dress' parade, right? If not it is extraordinarily confusing. Pretty state of affairs here though, the confused part.