"Come and Join Us Brothers," 1863 in Picture File.
After President Lincoln's announcement that the federal government would allow the enlistment of African American soldiers, the Northern Army began recruitment efforts. This is one of their recruitment posters for African Americans.
La Feuille was an anarchist newsletter written and edited by the firebrand and political impresario Zo d’Axa (Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse), who once launched a campaign to elect a donkey to the Chamber of Deputies. The editorials of this anti-militarist and anti-capitalist publication sought to defend France’s underdogs: the workers, their unions, and Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Here, pro-Dreyfusard illustrator Louis Anquetin fires a shot in the war of the presses, taking aim at anti-Dreyfusard journalist Edmond Drumont by pairing him with Joseph Vacher, a French serial killer and Christian zealot known for his eccentric dress and rabbit-fur cap. Rallying the two around a crucifix entwined with a viper, (short-hand amongst anti-clerics for the religious orders) Anquetin suggests that both hateful men found justification for their rampages in a sometimes complicit Catholic church.
Editor of the anti-Semitic daily La Libre Parole, and author of a number of highly popular anti-Semitic polemics, including the bestseller La France Juive, published in 1886 and reprinted 200 times over 60 years.
Cover of "Exhibit of Books Illustrating the History of Military Medicine" by Dr. Trent held October 16-18, 1941 in the Exhibition Room, Duke University Hospital, Durham.
