Cartoon, "What Are You Going to Do About It", 1872
date: label: date made
content: 1872
name: label: associated institution
content: Tammany Hall
label: described
content: Greeley, Horace
label: artist
content: Nast, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast continued the tradition of using animals as symbols in party politics and sharpened it as an art form. In this satirical cartoon that appeared on August 31, 1872 in Harper’s Weekly, Nast depicts New York City’s corrupt Tammany Society as a fierce tiger, being whitewashed by Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley.
topic: label: classified
content: Political Caricatures
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1872.A050
label: accession number
content: 227739
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1872.A050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Periodical Sheet
label: Object Name
content: Cartoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 38.735 cm x 26.67 cm