. Lincoln caricatures : during his campaign, after his election and during the Civil War . an school to American ideasthat the comic paper assumed its legitimate place inAmerican journalism. Keppler was an Austrian, hadtraveled extensively in his native country and had as-pired in the early part of his life to become an Vienna he was a contemporary of the great trage-dians of the time at the Royal Play-house, the Burg-theater, and he toured Europe and America withtheatrical companies. He landed in the New World in1872 and it was he who started the first comic paperof this country, Tuc
. Lincoln caricatures : during his campaign, after his election and during the Civil War . an school to American ideasthat the comic paper assumed its legitimate place inAmerican journalism. Keppler was an Austrian, hadtraveled extensively in his native country and had as-pired in the early part of his life to become an Vienna he was a contemporary of the great trage-dians of the time at the Royal Play-house, the Burg-theater, and he toured Europe and America withtheatrical companies. He landed in the New World in1872 and it was he who started the first comic paperof this country, Tuck, primarily in St. Louis and laterin company with the genial Adolph Schwartzman inNew York. One of the forgotten comic papers of the earlysixties is Vanity Fair. Only a very few copies of thispublication survived the destructive years of the very limited circulation, wiiich this weekly had,makes it very doubtful whether there are many dupli-cates of the seven volumes issued, in existence. Thereis none in the public libraries of Chicago. The histor- Lincoln Campaign Cartoons 41. C0:\1IXG ROUND. LINCOLN—I say Yancey—if youll let me have thesestables in peace for the next four years, Ill give yousome of the best stalls and see that your nag is welltaken care of. From Vanity Fair, November 17, 1860. 42 Lincoln Caricatures ical societies of New York and Chicago are not in po-session of a complete sot, but have only a few odd num-bers. l\h. Julius Doerner, the well-known collector and bestinformed and most reliable judge of rare books in Chi-cago, possesses a complete set of Vanity Fair. He isone of the contributors of The Lantern and throughhis courtesy in placing the valuable numbers at ourdisposal, we are enabled to illustrate this article withcartoons, known to very few and in no manner pub-licly accessible. Very little is known about Vanity Fair. The firstnumber of the weekly, published in quarto and sixteenpages, appeared in the year 1859. It expired gently inDecem
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