This is a physical object, "[p]rinted in violet ink on yellow....[and] addressed to John Mercer Esq., Coatesville, Pennsylvania". It bears the return address of the Lincoln-Johnson Presidential campaign and its emblematic phrase: "UNION &…
The stereograph sensation is evident in these advertisements on the last page of the April 29, 1865, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. With the war now over, stereograph publishers began to focus on…