William Boss Tweed Political Cartoon
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The first american master of the political cartoon an illustrator named thomas nast used his work to shed light on the corruption that ran rampant in tammany hall in new york city.
William boss tweed political cartoon. Tweed never served as mayor. In addition to his caricatures of tweed nast created the tammany tiger as a symbol for the ring and sometimes he used it as a more general symbol for the democratic party. William boss tweed vintage and historic cartoons and caricatures from the cartoonstock directory the world s largest on line collection of cartoons. Thomas nast s campaign against boss tweed thomas nast s campaign against boss tweed in the years following the civil war a former street brawler and lower east side political fixer named william m.
Tweed became notorious as boss tweed in new york city. Cartoon of boss tweed by thomas nast boss tweed and the tweed ring depicted as a group of vultures by cartoonist thomas nast in harper s weekly september 23 1871. At the height of his influence tweed was the third largest landowner in new york city a director of the erie railroad a director of the tenth national bank a. In 1876 he was arrested by spanish police who reportedly.
The tammany ring run by a man named william boss tweed bribed officials rigged elections and stole money from city coffers. Cartoon after cartoon pictured tweed as a thief. Nast succeeded in creating a negative image of boss tweed but was less. In a series of cartoons for harper s weekly nast helped bring tweed down.