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Nast's tenure at Harper's Weekly ended with his Christmas illustration of December 1886. It was said by the journalist Henry Watterson that "in quitting Harper's Weekly, Nast lost his forum: in losing him, Harper's Weekly lost its political importance." [68] Fiona Deans Halloran says "the former is true to a certain extent, the latter unlikely ...
Nast's final contribution to Harper's Weekly was his Christmas illustration in December 1886. Journalist Henry Watterson said that "in quitting Harper's Weekly, Nast lost his forum: in losing him, Harper's Weekly lost its political importance." [14] Nast's biographer Fiona Deans Halloran says "the former is true to a certain extent, the latter ...
Harper's Weekly (archive.org) Southern Justice is a multi-panel political cartoon by Bavarian-American caricaturist Thomas Nast , advocating for continued military occupation of the Southern United States to protect freedmen , Unionists , and Republicans from violence. [ 1 ]
English: Political cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting a Chinese immigrant, American Indian, and African American, published in the periodical Harper's Weekly on February 8, 1879. The Chinese man and American Indian man stand together looking at a wall plastered with xenophobic headlines.
Harper's Weekly was also responsible for publishing the first modern image of Santa Claus (drawn by Nast). Harper died at his home in New York City on May 29, 1877. [1] His paper lost influence after his death when his successor George William Curtis began putting restrictions on Nast, causing him to quit in 1886. [citation needed]
Harper's Weekly Andy's Trip is a multi-panel political cartoon by American artist Thomas Nast depicting the 1866 electioneering trip of U.S. president Andrew Johnson that came to be known as the Swing Around the Circle .
American political cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things", depicting a drunken Irishman sitting on a barrel of gunpowder while lighting a powder keg and swinging a bottle in the air. Nast was an anti-Catholic immigrant from Germany. Published 2 September 1871 in Harper's Weekly
Wikimedia Commons user comments: As shown in this Thomas Nast cartoon, Worse than Slavery, white groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League used every form of terror, violence, and intimidation to restore a “white man’s government” and redeem the noble “lost cause.” Date: 24 October 1874: Source