Tammany Down Again-The 'Reform' Trap Smashed, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Tammany Down Again-The 'Reform' Trap Smashed, from "Harper's Weekly"
Tammany Down Again-The 'Reform' Trap Smashed, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished November 20, 1875
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 13 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (34.3 × 23 cm) Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 5/8 in. (41.6 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.299
Not on view
DescriptionElephant with "Republican / vote" on side standing on pile of signs about Tammany Hall. Man screaming in background below sign with typed quote titled "Tammany's Waterloo". Building in background reads "Public School" and has American flag on roof.
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Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Page number "940," publisher, and publication date "November 20, 1875" typeset above image in black ink.
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Thomas Nast
Date: published November 7, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.259
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Thomas Nast
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Thomas Nast
Date: published May 15, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.285
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Thomas Nast
Date: published November 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.297
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Thomas Nast
Date: published November 4, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.347
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Thomas Nast
Date: unknown
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
Object number: 1944.1.58
Photo by John Bentham.
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Thomas Nast
Date: published June 4, 1892
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.49
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Thomas Nast
Date: published February 13, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.270
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Thomas Nast
Date: published January 9, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.267
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Thomas Nast
Date: published October 24, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.257
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'Amnesty;' or, the End of the Peaceful (Democratic) Tiger, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 5, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.310
Image Not Available for Now Begins the Rub, from "The Daily Graphic"
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Thomas Nast
Date: published August 27, 1883
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 1944.1.15