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Wholesale and Retail
Harper’s Weekly – September 16, 1871 An even stronger contrast followed two weeks later, as the Big Four made their last appearance as comparative equals. In Wholesale and Retail, they...
“What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils”
...had secretly resigned as Commissioner of Public Parks six days before the election, but withheld that news and its effective date until after the returns were official. If there was...
Something That Did Blow Over — November 7, 1871
...That Did Blow Over featured the storm that destroyed Tammany Hall. Oakey hung from a teetering column with cash packets dropping from his pocket; Former Comptroller (Slippery Dick) Connolly was...
Can the Law Reach Him — The Dwarf and the Giant Thief
Harper’s Weekly – January 6, 1872 After Tweed resigned as Commissioner of Public Works on December 28, 1871, he faced criminal charges. The primary question on many lips was whether...
The Tammany Tiger Loose
...Loose was probably the second-most impactful cartoon he ever drew, and among the tops in American political history. (The most influential was Compromise with the South. See Civil War Cartoons.)...
The Last of the Four
...‘thorn of Tammany’ left blooming alone, all his lovely companions are faded and gone,” Hall topped a dead Tammany rose bush. Connolly peered from jail, Sweeny headed North to Canada,...
Another Whale — Jonah Case
...The compressed Tweed actually lost more than 100 pounds on his two trans-Atlantic voyages, mostly from sea-sickness. In the same issue, Nast and Harper’s gloated by re-printing the Tweed-Le-Dee and...
Contraband of War
...venture of his life. He believed that he could satisfy his passion for historical painting and his talent for caricature by combining them into a novel, attention-getting panorama. Moving panoramas...
“Apollo Amusing the Gods”
...election — about 14 a month — Nast was finally able to laugh as Election Day approached. Apollo Amusing the Gods, his Olympian Comic Opera, appeared the day after the...
The Rebel Army Crossing the Fords of the Potomac for the Invasion of Maryland
...illustration in it was on the newsstand a week earlier, three days after the Battle of Antietam took place, but before it was depicted in the weeklies. Union Commanding General...