Testimony in the great Beecher-Tilton scandal case illustrated / des. & drawn by James E. Cook 46 Desplaines St. ; Commercial Lith. Co. 180 Clark St.
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Print shows, at center, Henry Ward Beecher with Elizabeth Tilton sitting on his lap as he embraces her, the "Holy Bible" open on her lap. Includes vignettes of the Henry Ward Beecher-Theodore Tilton scandal, including "Tilton & Woodhull [swimming] at Long Branch"; Mrs. [Frank] Moulton kisses Beecher"; Beecher drinking one of his alcoholic "Poisons"; "Beecher on the Ragged Edge" of a saw blade, with caption "I feel like one in a dream" and a devil; "Mrs. Beecher" crying; and a prediction "The end of Beecher's trail all smoke year 1900."
F2908 U.S. Copyright Office.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875 by Cook, Haas & Rhodes, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Exhibited: "Women's Suffrage" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, South West Curtain, June 2018 - September 2020.
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