Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Rail Splitter Repairing the Union

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[edit] The Rail Splitter Repairing the Union

Reason

Political cartoon from 1865 that illustrates Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson mending the rift that had caused the American Civil War. A good example of mid-ninteteenth century political cartoons with a particularly important underlying topic.

Articles this image appears in

Reconstruction era of the United States, Andrew Johnson, Editorial cartoon

Creator

Joseph E. Baker. Restored version of Image:Lincoln and Johnson original.jpg.

• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 06:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Very nice restoration. Time3000 (talk) 08:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Well done.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 11:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Question Was that a poster or...? Where was it published?--Svetovid (talk) 11:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I agree with you that it would be interesting to have this information. In case your concern is about licensing, if it's a period piece, it would have definitely been published prior to 1923, which places it in the public domain. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
    • The Library of Congress doesn't state, but this site states that Currier & Ives was a publisher for this artist. It's unclear whether they published this particular image. Durova^Charge! 18:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support - I love these things. Punch-style cartoons are great! Nice job, looks good. ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 14:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support - good quality, high importance - great restoration. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 17:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support, nice job, but I think its file name have to be changed to "Image:Lincoln and Johnson.jpg. Xenus (talk) 17:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm constructing an image restoration tutorial for Wikibooks. There's a Commons file for successive steps in the work on this image. The filename makes sense in that context, and the goal is to show more people how to do this kind of work themselves. :) Durova^Charge! 18:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Political cartoons are great, especially when they are old. illustrates a point. ---Nelro (talk) 17:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Support-Great encyclopedic value, very well done. ~Meldshal42 20:08, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

• Support per high EV. There's a little tilt that could be fixed, though. ¢rassic! (talk) 07:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
  • The hand drawn image was not perfectly symmetrical. I chose the top border line as a guide marker and adjusted that to a tenth of a degree. Then I selectively copied, rotated, and pasted the bottom caption text. This leaves the bottom border line unaltered, which is about 0.15 degree off true parallel from the top border. I contemplated fixing that also with clockwise rotation, but decided that might give the image too mechanical a feel. I still could make that change if anybody thinks it's needed. Seems truer to the period this way, IMO. Durova^Charge!
    • Ah, okay. ;) ¢rassic! (talk) 20:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Nice image, good theme, high quality and enc. Spencer^T♦C 14:29, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Good reconstruction, obvious FP material. - Darwinek (talk) 10:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Fantastic primary source with high quality. Illustrates the point perfectly. - Codram (talk) 06:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support SGGH ^speak! 12:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support Very nice image, good restoration of an old poster. Cat-five - talk 09:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Lincoln and Johnsond.jpg MER-C 07:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)