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Santa Claus’s Mail, Santa Claus’s Rebuke
...Papa and Mamma complained to Santa in Harper’s Bazar. The similarly-dated Weekly showed Santa receiving about six times more letters from “naughty children’s parents” while pictures of good and naughty...
The Welcome to New Cork
...works; real estate for parochial schools, churches, orphan asylums and hospitals; education subsidies; and, of course, sinecures, graft, violence and fraud. After Tweed consolidated power in 1863, he had the...
“The Tammany Tiger Loose — What Are You Going to Do About It?”
...November 11 Weekly, available six days before the election. However, his keynote tiger had to compete for attention with Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the resultant Chicago fire, whose illustrations and...
The Grand Peace Overture to “Our Wayward Sisters”
...their editorial drums. Greeley wrote Lincoln, beseeching the President to authorize him to enter peace negotiations at Niagara Falls. Lincoln complied, provided that the Confederates committed up front to restoration...
The Halt
...color, but there was no hint of caricature or stereotyping in their appearance. Both Nast and the Blacks had come a long way since his 1861 caricatures in the New...
The Ogre of Andersonville
...summer and cold in the winter, led to chronic diarrhea, dehydration and death. Discipline was strict, and men were shot on sight for approaching a “death line.” 13,000 died. Commandant...
The Union Christmas Dinner
...right completed the allegorical imagery. If the Confederacy would lay down its arms, surrender unconditionally and be contrite, the Union — with Lincoln as its dominant forgiving father — would...
President Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 4, 1865
Harper’s Weekly – February 24, 1866 April 2, 1865 saw the successful end of the ten-month siege of Petersburg, the gateway to Richmond, as Grant completed his encirclement of the...
Peace in Union
Painting – 1895 On April 9, 1895 — exactly 30 years after Appomattox and almost ten years after Grant died — Nast completed Peace In Union, a nine-by-twelve foot picture...
The Guilty Conscience; or, Who’s that Knocking at the Door?
Phunny Phellow– July 1865 Nast’s cartoon referred to the Alabama Claims controversy. The Confederate ship Alabama was illegally constructed (in violation of neutrality) in Liverpool and resupplied in France. Commanded...