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Republican Presidential Candidates
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Political ‘Army of Salvation’”
Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: March 31, 1880, p. 19
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... "General Grant’s Sedan ____?"
Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: May 1, 1880, p. 273
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... "The Die is Cast’—Caesar and Pompey in Ohio"
Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: April 17, 1880, p. 252
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The ‘Magnetic’ Blaine; Or, A Very Heavy ‘Load’-stone for the Republican Party to Carry”
Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: May 8, 1880, p. 300
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Plumed Knight”
Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: June 5, 1880, p. 353
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Tilden's Candidacy
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “It Is Whispered Again That Tilden Has Given In”
Topic: Tilden's Candidacy
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: May 15, 1880, p. 305
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Not a Bad Idea"
Topic: Tilden's Candidacy
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: June 5, 1880, p. 361
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Boom!!! —So Near, and Yet So Far”
Topic: Tilden's Candidacy
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 10, 1880, p. 433
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Miss Columbia (to General H_____)”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 24, 1880, p. 465
Cartoonist: Probably Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Just the Difference”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: July 28, 1880, p. 43
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Democratic Trojan Horse”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 31, 1880, p. 481
Cartoonist: A. B. Frost
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... General Hancock Gulliver, How Do You Like It As Far As You’ve Got?”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 31, 1880, p. 484
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘What I Need Is Repose and Recreation.’—S. J. T.”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 24, 1880, p. 480
Cartoonist: Perhaps A. B. Frost
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “General Inspection”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 14, 1880, p. 521
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Democratic Axe-Grinder”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 9, 1880, p. 641
Cartoonist: A. B. Frost
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A ‘Change’ in the Cabinet”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 30, 1880, pp. 696-697
Cartoonist: William Allen Rogers
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle”
Topic: Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: October 27, 1880, p. 39
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler


English: The Language of Money
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Chorus of Hungry Democrats”
Topic: English: The Language of Money
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 28, 1880, p. 557
Cartoonist: Perhaps A. B. Frost
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Tail Praising Its Head”
Topic: English: The Language of Money
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 21, 1880, p. 529
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Another Kind of ‘Silent' (Democratic) Majority”
Topic: English: The Language of Money
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 9, 1880, pp. 648-649
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Ben Butler Re-Turns
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Widow’s Wants”
Topic: Ben Butler Re-Turns
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 11, 1880, p. 577
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Return of the Prodigal”
Topic: Ben Butler Re-Turns
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 25, 1880, p. 623
Cartoonist: Unknown


Hayes: The Lament of a Lame-Duck
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Cinderella of the Republican Party and Her Haughty Sisters”
Topic: Hayes: The Lament of a Lame-Duck
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: October 13, 1880, p. 23
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler


Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Behind Again”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 24, 1880, p. 480
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “How Hancock Will (Not) Get the Soldier Vote”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 28, 1880, p. 560
Cartoonist: Unknown
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The ‘Silent' (Democratic) Majority”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 28, 1880, pp. 552-553
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Master and Slave”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 30, 1880, p. 701
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Will Be Gulliver in the Hands of the Brobdingnagians”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 18, 1880, p. 596
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Great Democratic Moral Show”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 25, 1880, p. 616
Cartoonist: Thomas Worth
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Not a Fit Party to Trust”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 9, 1880, p. 652
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Only Waiting for the Signal”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 30, 1880, p. 693
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “What a Pity!”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 13, 1880, p. 725
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Hancock and Lincoln”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 6, 1880, p. 719
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Friend of the Freedmen”
Topic: Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 23, 1880, p. 685
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup


Nativism and the Irish Vote
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Exultant Tammanyite”
Topic: Nativism and the Irish Vote
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 30, 1880, p. 695
Cartoonist: Michael Angelo Woolf


Tariff Issue
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Local Question”
Topic: Tariff Issue
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 13, 1880, p. 721
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Hancock's Uphill Battle
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Up-Hill Work”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 4, 1880, p. 561
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Doctor Democracy”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 18, 1880, p. 593
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Transfusion of Blood—Is It Too Late?”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 2, 1880, p. 637
Cartoonist: William Allen Rogers
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Hopeless Undertaking”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 9, 1880, p. 644
Cartoonist: William Allen Rogers
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Now or Never—The White House or ‘Bust’!”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 16, 1880, p. 661
Cartoonist: William Allen Rogers
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Campaign of ‘Changes’”
Topic: Hancock's Uphill Battle
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 6, 1880, p. 713
Cartoonist: William Allen Rogers


State Elections
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Mrs. Partington Hancock Struggling with the Republican Tide”
Topic: State Elections
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 30, 1880, p. 693
Cartoonist: Thure de Thulstrup
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘Call You That Backing of Your Friends? A Plague Upon Such a Backing!”
Topic: State Elections
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 6, 1880, p. 708
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam


Election Results
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Let Us Have Peace, Now a President is Elected”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: November 3, 1880, p. 59
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Republican Pachyderm Alive and Kicking: Pushed Things”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 20, 1880, p. 737
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Victory!”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 20, 1880, p. 741
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “No Change is Necessary, General Hancock"
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 20, 1880, pp. 744-745
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Merry Christmas to All”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Cartoons From "Puck"
Date: December 22, 1880, p. 45
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
 
   

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