1863 EXTREMELY RARE VANITY FAIR ~ CHARLES INGERSOLL WHISKEY PA. SLAVE SALE PRINT

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1863 EXTREMELY RARE VANITY FAIR ~ CHARLES INGERSOLL WHISKEY PA. SLAVE SALE PRINT:
$200.00

A TRULY RARE FIND. THIS WAS A SHORT LIVED PUBLICATION AND I WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT!

WHAT I HAVE LISTED ARE THE ONLY ONES TO BE FOUND ONLINE FOR SALE!

DATED MAY 16th1863

COVER DEPICTS CHARLES INGERSOLL

Biography

Born in Whiskey, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Jared Ingersoll who served in the Continental Congress, and brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll.

Charles Ingersoll dropped out of the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1799.[1] He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He traveled in Europe for a time, and was attached to the U. S. embassy in France. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress, where he served as chairman of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1814, having been appointed United States district attorney for Pennsylvania. He served in that office from 1815 to 1829, and was a member of the Pennsylvania canal and internal improvement convention in 1825. In 1829, he was removed from the office of district attorney by Andrew Jackson.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1830, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837. He was appointed secretary of the legation to Prussia on March 8, 1837. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1837 for election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis J. Harper in the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1838.

Ingersoll was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1848. He was appointed Minister to France in 1847 but was not confirmed by the Senate. He died in 1862 in Philadelphia. Interment in The Woodlands Cemetery. His son Edward Ingersoll wrote on legal topics.

ALSO CONTAINS CIVIL WAR TOPICS

Early review:The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil and Cold War: Vanity Fair treatment of race and humor in Vanity Fair, an antebellum periodical that a number of the Pfaff\'s bohemians contributed to. Specifically, considers the irony that, \"while the Bohemians associated with Vanity Fair gladly enlisted in the battle to free humanity from the shackles of social repression\" they did not throw their support behind the abolitionist effort. Instead, the Civil War-era Vanity Fair was marked by pronounced racism towards African Americans, which it expressed through a variety of attempts at humor

Published by Louis H. Stephens a noted Humorist, cartoonist and caricaturist

8.5\"x 11.25\" 12pages (complete) New York

Several of the prints have the name Bobbett-Hooper under them

Henry Louis Stephens (February 11, 1824 – December 13, 1882) was an American illustrator.

He was born in Philadelphia. About 1859 he went to New York under an engagement with Frank Leslie, and after a year or so transferred his services to Harper & Brothers. Stephens was a prolific artist, and accomplished a great amount of work for book and magazine illustration.

He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (1858), a book edited by William Evans Burton, Vanity Fair (1859–63), Mrs. Grundy (1869), Punchinello (1870), and other periodicals. He contributed artwork to Mark Twain\'s comic memoir, Roughing It and the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. He illustrated some children\'s books, including Aesop\'s Fables, Death of Cock Robin, and The House that Jack Built; he wrote and illustrated The Goblin Snob (c. 1855), a satirical poem, as well as The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851). He gave some attention also to painting in watercolors, but rarely exhibited his works. He died in Bayonne, New Jersey