The Winning Hand. Albumen caricature CDV. N.p.: N.p., [1864]. Titled in plate. 

A pro-McClellan political caricature from the 1864 presidential election. President Lincoln and General McClellan, in uniform, are engaged in a card game. At stake is the White House, represented in miniature on the games table between them. The artist evidently favors McClellan, giving him a full house. 

Other examples of the caricature are on the mounts of New York publisher Gurney & Son. Those examples have the title printed to the mount, rather than in negative, suggesting this example is a later issue or a contemporary pirated copy. 

An example is illustrated in Lincolniana Historical Portraits and Views...Collection of Americana of Frederick Hill Meserve. New York: Privately Printed, 1915. p. 46.

[Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1864 Election, Election of 1864,  Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards] [Illustration, Cartoon, Caricature] 

Some staining, even toning. Crease to upper left.