PROVENANCE_______________________________________________________
The Thomas Nast Political Cartoon Collection
1.0 Linear Feet
Collection No. MSS-034The records which comprise this collection have been provided to the Archives and Special Collections Department at the Auraria Library by Elicia and Lee Wolf.
Property rights to this collection are held by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Auraria Library . Citation:
The Thomas Nast Political Cartoon Collection Box #/Item # Archives and Special Collections Department Auraria Library Denver, Colorado
Thomas Nast was born September 26, 1840 in Landau, Germany. His family emmigrated to New York City in 1846. Nast, who studied art, found his first job as a reportorial artist at age 15 with "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper". He was hired by "Harper's Weekly" in 1862 to produce sketches of the fighting during the Civil War. His drawing for "Harper's Weekly" eventually evolved into doing political caricatures. During his career with "Harper's Weekly", which lasted until 1886, he produced approximately 2200 political cartoons. He is famous for his attacks on "Boss" Tweed and the "Tammany Hall" political machine in New York City in the 1860'sand 1870's. He is also credited with creating the elephant and donkey political symbols for the Republican and Democratic parties. Nast died in 1902 of yellow fever while serving as the consul general to Ecuador.
This collection contains approximately 160 Nast cartoons clipped from the pages of "Harper's Weekly". They range in date from 1866 to 1886. Anyone interested in viewing all of Thomas Nast's political caricatures in "Harper's Weekly" can see them on microform in the Auraria Library's Periodicals Department. The call number for "Harper's Weekly" on microfiche is: E 12 L5 LAC 31600-693.
Series 1: Thomas Nast political cartoons from "Harper's Weekly". This series is arranged in chronological order. Series 2: An article (with portrait) about Thomas Nast from "Harper's Weekly".CONTAINER LIST__________________________________________________
Series 1: Nast cartoonsDate (M/D/Y) Title Box #/Item # 01/14/1866 The uprising of Italy. 1/1 02/09/1867 The Pope ordering our minister, Mr. King to remove American Protestant worship frome Rome.1/2 06/15/1867 Infanticide. 1/3 07/11/1868 Would you marry your daughter to a nigger? 1/4 07/18/1868 The youngest introducing the oldest. 1/5 07/03/1969 Six days with the devil and one with god. 1/6 12/25/1869 The economical council, Albany, New York. 1/7 02/26/1870 Our common schools as they are and as they may be. 1/8 08/20/1870 "Robbing the cradle and the grave."/The best of friends must part - "Au revoir." (2 cartoons on one page) 1/9 06/10/1871 The madness of Paris. 1/10 11/25/1871 "What are you laughing at? To the victor belong the spoils." 1/11 01/06/1872 Can the law reach him? - The dwarf and the giant thief. 1/12 08/10/1872 The cats-paw. - Any thing to get the chestnuts. 1/13 08/31/1872 The new democratic party whip - whipping into line. 1/14 09/14/1872 The next in order - any thing! Oh, any thing! 1/15 09/27/1872 Circumstances alter cases. 1/16 10/19/1872 Who are the haters? 1/17 11/02/1872 Our foreign ruler(?)/"I would rather be right than president."/I would do any thing to be president./The German vote/The same old smell. (4 cartoons on one page) 1/18 11/09/1872 "The pirates," under false colors - can they capture the ship of state? 3/1 12/21/1872 The herb that will heal the discontented wild Irishman. 1/19 12/28/1872 Who shall rule? 1/20 01/04/1873 The finger of scorn. 1/21 03/22/1873 The cherubs of the Credit Mobilier. 1/22 10/18/1873 Out of the ruins. 1/23 12/06/1873 Victory sits on our helm. 1/24 05/02/1874 Robbing the grave, and shielding themselves behind the tombstone. 1/25 05/02/1874 Robbing the grave, and shielding themselves behind the tombstone. (copy 2) 1/26 05/16/1874 The cradle of liberty out of danger. 1/27 05/23/1874 Public opinion - April 22, 1874. 1/28 06/06/1874 A step in the right direction. 1/29 06/13/1874 A dead failure. 1/30 06/20/1874 The greatest joke of the century. 1/31 07/18/1874 "Don't let us have any more of this nonsense. It is a good trait to stand by one's friends: but-." 1/32 08/08/1874 The mere shadow has some backbone. 1/33 08/22/1874 Who ought to have the cardinal's hat in America? 1/34 09/19/1874 The same old pirate afloat again. 3/2 11/21/1874 Caught in a trap - the result of the third-term hoax. 1/35 01/02/1875 The outs always wake up the ins. 1/36 01/23/1875 Drawing his sword for the political Roman church. 1/37 01/30/1875 General Sheridan stands by his dispatches. 1/38 02/20/1875 Garibaldi at Rome - time works wonders. 1/39 03/13/1875 Under parole of honor - the ex-officers of the ex-confederate army in congress. 1/40 03/27/1875 Hammering woke them at last. 1/41 03/27/1875 A moonshine scene. 1/42 04/10/1875 "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." 1/43 04/10/1875 "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." (copy 2) 1/44 04/17/1875 Required to live under a new order of things. 1/45 04/17/1875 Required to live under a new order of things. (copy 2) 1/46 05/15/1875 The next pardon in the reform farce(?) 1/47 07/10/1875 Homo-phobia. 1/48 10/16/1875 Pocketing the missing plank. 1/49 01/30/1875 Pitiful reform. 1/50 11/06/1875 It sounds well! - The prologue before the farce. 1/51 11/06/1875 Out of one into another? 1/52 11/13/1875 Another "respectable" failure. 1/53 12/04/1875 Thanksgiving finance. 1/54 12/04/1875 The two ring tailors. 1/55 12/04/1875 O'boss Tammany wake. 1/56 12/25/1875 J.G.B., Jun., In his property-room. 1/57 01/15/1876 "Madness (yet there's method in it)." 1/58 02/19/1876 A Georgia hill. 1/59 03/11/1876 Injured innocence - Southern "chivalry" not dead yet. 1/60 03/18/1876 The martry of Andersonville. 1/61 04/29/1876 Killing polite. 1/62 05/20/1876 The democratic tiger gone mad. 1/63 06/10/1876 Columbia,m beware of harboring a viper in your bosom. 1/64 08/12/1876 Declaration of equality. 3/3 10/28/1876 "The elephant walks around" - and the "still hunt" is nearly over. 1/65 12/09/1876 The ignorant vote - honors are easy. 1/66 12/09/1876 "The indifference of Uncle Sam." 1/67 12/09/1876 Uncle Sam put in his "bier."/4-00,000 more. 1/68 12/23/1876 "Ceasar, now be still." (2 cartoons on one page) 1/69 01/06/1877 History repeats itself. 2/1 01/27/1877 The Mexican Don Quixote. 2/2 03/24/1877 Ever so to "ancient frauds" - a bouy to ward off southern navigators from "a snare and a delusion." 2/3 05/19/1877 The advanced age. 2/4 05/26/1877 Impatient to enter. 2/5 07/07/1877 Foully murdered. 2/6 11/03/1877 The eastern question (growing daily more complicated). 2/7 11/10/1877 Another sedan. 2/8 11/17/1877 Les deux presidents - elysee. 2/9 12/15/1877 C.O.D. 2/10 01/26/1878 The Secretary of the Interior investigating the Indian Bureau. 2/11 04/06/1878 Awaiting provocation. 2/12 04/06/1878 Awaiting provocation. (copy 2) 2/13 04/13/1878 "Manhood and honor should have hare hearts." 2/14 06/01/1878 Waiting. 2/15 07/27/1878 Is it ever thus with arbitrators. 2/16 07/27/1878 Is it ever thus with arbitrators. (copy 2) 2/17 08/17/1878 Swill milk. 2/18 11/09/1878 Help! 3/4 11/30/1878 Chained. 2/19 12/14/1878 The field of smoke. 2/20 12/14/1878 The field of smoke. (copy 2) 2/21 12/28/1878 Spoiling for a fight. 2/22 02/01/1879 Very social. 2/23 06/14/1879 "National importance." 2/24 06/21/1879 "The old national spirit" is gone (for the present). 2/25 07/05/1879 Another "sore on the body politic." 2/26 07/26/1879 The "Statesman" at home. 2/27 07/26/1879 The "Statesman" at home. (copy 2) 2/28 08/02/1879 The campaign song. 2/29 08/16/1879 Stop hazing in toto. 2/30 08/16/1879 Stop hazing in toto. (copy 2) 2/31 09/06/1879 A high old tariff time. 2/32 11/29/1879 "None but the brave deserves the fair." 2/33 12/13/1879 On ice. 2/34 12/13/1879 On ice. (copy 2) 2/35 01/17/1880 The quack's main(e) dose - that will cure or kill. 2/36 02/21/1880 The unprotected female. 2/37 02/28/1880 The herald of relief from america. 2/38 04/10/1880 Our yankee notion. 2/39 04/17/1880 Don't! 2/40 05/15/1880 "It is whispered again that Tilden has given in." 2/41 10/23/1880 "Freedom of suffrage to the blacks means freedom of suffrage to the whites." 2/42 12/04/1880 The heat of the last political campaign. 2/43 04/16/1881 The "readjusting" performance. 2/44 08/20/1881 Let us have a clean sweep all around New York. 2/45 12/31/1881 Constancy is a jewel. 2/46 04/15/1882 The veto. 2/47 05/20/1882 Fiendish assassins. 2/48 09/09/1882 More protection in a free country./Dear "Dr. Bismark." (2 cartoons on one page) 2/49 11/04/1882 Bill Sykes./A boss warning./Making his toy horse rear. (3 cartoons on one page) 2/50 11/11/1882 As of old (the british) Ceasar will grow fat in Egypt. 2/51 11/18/1882 Now, then, behave yourself. 2/52 12/09/1882 Reduce taxation. 2/53 03/22/1884 The silver delusion. 2/54 04/05/1884 Blaine canvassing. 2/55 04/05/1884 Blaine canvassing. (copy 2) 2/56 04/19/1884 Reform without bloodshed. 2/57 04/26/1884 The great democratic "protectionist" of his country's interests. 2/58 05/31/1884 The loves of the nations. 2/59 06/21/1884 "I ought not to assume a task which I have not the strength to carry through." 2/60 06/21/1884 Plucked to soon. 2/61 06/21/1884 Death before dishonor. 3/5 07/05/1884 See Blaine and go one better. 2/62 07/12/1884 The boss convention. 2/63 07/19/1884 An independent victory. 2/64 08/02/1884 The key-note of the great presidential trial (1884). 2/65 08/16/1884 The so-called "intensely american candidate." 2/66 09/13/1884 How they got their heads together. 2/67 09/20/1884 "The issue of protection to american labor." 2/68 09/27/1884 Grave regrets. 2/69 09/27/1884 The teetotal dodger. 2/70 10/18/1884 Lashing himself into fever heat. 2/71 10/25/1884 A job lot. 2/72 10/25/1884 Cold water comfort. 2/73 11/15/1884 That boodleful dinner at Delmonico's before the election (October 29). 2/74 01/16/1886 A good spirit to follow. 2/75 01/23/1886 The switcher switched. 2/76 04/03/1886 Our royal rulers (by divine right) in secret session. 2/77 05/01/1886 Oliver Cromwell and Charles I. 2/78 05/22/1886 The true-hearted squire. 2/79 06/12/1886 Blessed be the union. 2/80 06/12/1886 Blessed be the union. (copy 2) 2/81 06/26/1886 What is sure to stick. 2/82 07/24/1886 A too short vacation. 2/83Series 2: Nast article and portrait
Date (M/D/Y) Title Box #/Item #08/26/1871 Thomas Nast (includes portrait) pp.803-805 3/6