Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast (1840-1902) is often considered America's leading political cartoonist. He is especially known for his withering portraits of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed and the members of his "Ring" of Tammany Hall politicians who ruled New York City in the late 1860s. Nast is also notorious for his anti-Catholic cartoons which contributed to a renewed wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the 1870s. Nast's Almanac was very popular and the 1871 volume contained humorist G. P. Webster's poem, "A Dream of the Period" with Nast's illustrations. Together the poem and the drawings say a good deal about conventional notions of gender and gender roles.

http://www.assumption.edu/whw/old/A_Dream_Of_The_Period.html

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/cartoon.htm

Analyzing a Thomas Nast

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_062800_nastthomas.htm

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm112.html

Reconstruction

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm044.html

http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/608.htm

Portrait of: Thomas Nast (1840-1902)

http://www.thepunchline.com/pages/People/Editorial_Cartoonists/Nast__Thomas__1840-1902_/

Nast, Thomas (1840-1902)

http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/nast/bio.htm

http://store.dividend.com/howwitthomna.html

"How Elephant Became Symbol of Republicans" with Thomas Nast signature

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/civilwar/16/thomasnast.html

Thomas Nast

 http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Thomas_Nast.htm

http://www.virtualology.com/thomasnast.net/

 

http://www.folger.edu/public/exhibit/Passion/nast.asp

Thomas Nast's The Immortal Light of Genius

http://www.askart.com/artist/N/thomas_nast.asp?ID=8112

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nast_thomas.html

http://www.historyguy.com/thomas_nast.html

Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist (1840-1902)

http://special.library.louisville.edu/display-collection.asp?ID=391

Thomas Nast (1840-1902) cartoons