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It is only a truce to regain power ("playing possum").
1872
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Call Number
- E South 01/GC002/Box 09/Normal/Harper's Weekly (1872/06/09-1872/09/21) GA 2008.01457
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1872/08/24.
- People
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- Author
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- African Americans—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872—Caricatures and cartoons
- Political cartoons—United States—19th century
- Magazine illustration—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Black people—United States—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- United States—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Tammany Hall—Caricatures and cartoons
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- It is only a truce to regain power ("playing possum").
- Call Number
- E South 01/GC002/Box 09/Normal/Harper's Weekly (1872/06/09-1872/09/21) GA 2008.01457
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x633f1189
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1872/08/24.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1872
- Extent
- 1 item ; print 22.2 x 35 cm. sheet 28.7 x 41.5 cm.
- References
- Keller, Morton. The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968, p. 77.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Wood engravings
- Signed in block, lower left: "Th: Nast".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- African Americans—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872—Caricatures and cartoons
- Political cartoons—United States—19th century
- Magazine illustration—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Black people—United States—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- United States—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Tammany Hall—Caricatures and cartoons
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3deac391-5969-4cbf-a58f-03b28596bc02/manifest