A Blower. A Blower. Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. Wise blows through a tube into a contraption while McClellan looks on with sword drawn. Cream envelope with blue ink. Image on left side. Printed above image: 'A Blower.' Printed below image: 'Gen. McClellan. - I say, Wise, put / that thing up; everybody knows you're / a good blower, but you can't fight.' Printed at bottom-left of envelope: 'S. C. Upham, 310 Chestnut St.' View Item
To the rescue of sacred soil. To the rescue of sacred soil. Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. Henry Wise riding a horse with the skull and crossbones on its neck, shouting 'to the rescue of the 'sacred soil'.' White envelope with blue ink. Image on left. Printed below image: 'Whom the gods would destroy they make foolish at first,' / Is a saying in Latin we oft have rehears'd; / But alas! poor Virginia, its dogma denies- / For the gods, to destroy her, did first make her Wise!' Printed vertically at left of image: 'Copyright secured by Brown & Ryan, N. Y.' View Item