Thomas Nast
- 1840-1902 from Germany to New York
- engraver for Harpers Weekly 1857-1886
- technique: caricature, emblem, allegory
- themes: urban, Republican, ethnocultural
- pro-freedman (emancipation emblem)
- anti-Johnson (Roman emperor)
- pro-Grant (1868 Chicago - loyal soldier)
- anti-Democrat (1868 evil alliance of 3 figures)
- anti-Tammany Hall in NY (Peter Sweeney)
- anti-Irish (church-state plot like Europe)
- anti-Tweed (thumb, pear, tiger symbols)
- anti-Liberal Republican (Sumner & conspirators)
- anti-Carl Schurz (as carpetbag traitor)
- anti-Greeley (clasping hands with enemies)
- pro-Chinese (California vs Burlingame Treaty)
- pro-Indian (victims of corrupt Congress)
- pro- women's rights (Ohio movement)
- anti-socialist, unions (1870 Paris commune)
- anti-soft money (rag baby symbol)
Links:
Thomas Nast article by R.J. Brown
World of Thomas Nast from HarpWeek
The 13 August 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly
Harper's
Weekly ../../USPics18 of American Cultures
Thomas Nast The Man Who Saw Santa excerpt from article by R. J. Brown
Boss Tweed Cartoon from HarpWeek
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists by Jim Zwick includes Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum includes Nast illustration for 1869 title page of Beyond the Mississippi
Thomas Nast from German-American pages
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