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Synopsis
The Tammany Tiger Americus is loose in a Tammany Spoils Roman arena, killing Lady Columbia, Lady Justice, the god Mercury representing commerce, destroying a glass ballot box, the law, power, and the republic itself.
Notes
The caricatures of Tammany Hall politicians identified from the book, Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New-York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves (Morgan James Publishing, 2008) by John Adler with Draper Hill.
Reprinted in
- Cartoons Magazine #1 [25]— The Nash article states the original publication date was October 30, but no issue of Harper's Weekly was published on that date. Instead, this cartoon was published on November 11, 1871.
- Doomed by Cartoon #[nn]— On page 169.
Credits
- Script
- Thomas Nast
- Pencils
- Thomas Nast
- Inks
- Thomas Nast
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