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Try: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/civil.html
Monday (Feb. 15) is Presidents' Day, and we take you to a cyber gallery visit at the Lilly Library in Bloomington. Here you'll see some historic, but not your usual, depictions of Abraham Lincoln. This particular gallery is devoted to the work of period caricaturists who chronicle the man as candidate, president and commander in chief. His physical appearance drew much ink from the pens of caricaturists from both southern and northern exposures, and the work appeared as political cartoons in newspapers, periodicals and as individual prints for private purchase. Among the artists represented is Thomas Nast (1840-1902), whose depictions of Santa Claus and the Republican elephant have endured. It was Nast who molded northern public opinion regarding Lincoln and the Civil War.
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