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Republican Nomination
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Sacred Elephant”
Topic: Republican Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: March 8, 1884, p. 149
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Phryne Before the Chicago Tribunal”
Topic: Republican Nomination
Source: Puck
Date: June 4, 1884, p. 137
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Blaine Leans Towards Logan”
Topic: Republican Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: March 15, 1884, p. 180
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Death Before Dishonor”
Topic: Republican Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: June 21, 1884, pp. 396-397
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Roaring Farce”
Topic: Republican Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: June 28, 1884, p. 405
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Democratic Nomination
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... "Democrats Wishes to Win"
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Puck
Date: June 18, 1884, p. 256
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Cleveland the Celibate”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Puck
Date: April 18, 1884, p. 117
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Reform Without Bloodshed”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: April 19, 1884, p. 249
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Courts the Mother and Means the Daughter”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Puck
Date: June 4, 1884, p. 153
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Mr. Tilden’s Body-Guard”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Puck
Date: June 18, 1884, p. 39
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Bosses’ Convention”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 12, 1884, p. 441
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “An Independent Victory”
Topic: Democratic Nomination
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 19, 1884, p. 465
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Love’s Labor’s Lost”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Puck
Date: May 7, 1884, p. 160
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Selections from Blaine Cartoons Published in Harper’s Weekly from March 8, 1879, to May 13, 1882,”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 26, 1884, pp. 490-491
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Can’t Beat His Record”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Puck
Date: July 30, 1884, p. 174
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Grave Regrets”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 27, 1884, p. 627
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “His Own Destroyer”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Puck
Date: September 24, 1884, p. 5
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Slippery Jim Dictating His Letter of Exoneration To Himself”
Topic: Blaine’s Scandal Sheet
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 27, 1884, p. 637
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast.


“Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The ‘Great American’ Game of Public Office for Private Gain”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 9, 1884, p. 523
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘The Foremost Man of the Time.’—Blaineism”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 16, 1884, p. 542
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Knight of the Money-Bag”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 30, 1884, p. 569
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘The Issue of Protection to American Labor.’—Blaine”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 20, 1884, p. 611
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast.
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Is It Coming To This?”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 4, 1884, p. 662
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast.
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘Above Petty Personal Issues,’—New York Tribune”
Topic: “Boodle” Blaine: Public Office for Private Gain
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 1, 1884, p. 722
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Cleveland and the Maria Halpin Affair
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Those Dogs Won’t Fight—They Are Dying of Starvation”
Topic: Cleveland and the Maria Halpin Affair
Source: Puck
Date: August 20, 1884, p. 183
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Instituted the Ordeal. Can He Stand It Himself?”
Topic: Cleveland and the Maria Halpin Affair
Source: Puck
Date: August 13, 1884, p. 187
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Another Voice for Cleveland”
Topic: Cleveland and the Maria Halpin Affair
Source: Judge
Date: September 27, 1884, p. xii
Cartoonist: Frank Beard


Blaine and Jay Gould
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Job Lot”
Topic: Blaine and Jay Gould
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 25, 1884, p. 695
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Election Day—Watching the Returns”
Topic: Blaine and Jay Gould
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 8, 1884, p. 731
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... "Belshazzar Blaine and the Money Kings”
Topic: Blaine and Jay Gould
Source: New York World
Date: October 30, 1884, no page data
Cartoonist: Walt McDougall
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “That Boodleful Dinner At Delmonico’s Before the Election (October 29)”
Topic: Blaine and Jay Gould
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 15, 1884, p. 758
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


The Tariff Question
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “‘Let Him Rip!’—Samson H. Watterson”
Topic: The Tariff Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: April 5, 1884, p. 228
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Stop Tickling US, And Answer Without Dodging”
Topic: The Tariff Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 11, 1884, p. 663
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast.
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Her Platform Going to Pieces”
Topic: The Tariff Question
Source: Puck
Date: March 26, 1884, p. 105
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Blaine Tariff Fraud”
Topic: The Tariff Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 1, 1884, p. 715
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Highway Politics”
Topic: The Tariff Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 1, 1884, p. 726
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


The Irish Question
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Is This ‘The True American Policy’?”
Topic: The Irish Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 26, 1884, p. 473
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Blainiac Programme”
Topic: The Irish Question
Source: Puck
Date: July 23, 1884, p. 331
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Ready for Business”
Topic: The Irish Question
Source: Puck
Date: July 23, 1884, p. 322
Cartoonist: Bernhard Gillam
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The So-called ‘Intensely American Candidate”
Topic: The Irish Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 16, 1884, p. 530
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Has a Family Portrait Painted”
Topic: The Irish Question
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 6, 1884, p. 585
Cartoonist: Unknown


Prohibition
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “He Thinks He Can”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 23, 1884, p. 543
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Another Feather In His Cap”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 20, 1884, p. 623
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Prohibition’s Pet, St. John: ‘It’s Cold, and Lonesome, and Not Exhilarating—But I Like It, Oh, I Like It”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Puck
Date: October 15, 1884, p. 231
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Teetotal Dodger”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 27, 1884, p. 634
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “At His Old Tricks Again Out West”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 4, 1884, p. 654
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Cold Water Comfort”
Topic: Prohibition
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 25, 1884, p. 707
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


John Logan
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Alas! Poor Lindley Murray!”
Topic: John Logan
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 2, 1884, p. 507
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... Tail of the Ticket Proves Useful
Topic: John Logan
Source: Puck
Date: August 20, 1884, p. 390
Cartoonist: Unknown


Reid and Phelps
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Sound Political Arguments”
Topic: Reid and Phelps
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: July 26, 1884, p. 489
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Political Enchantment”
Topic: Reid and Phelps
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 2, 1884, p. 505
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Glorying In Their Shame”
Topic: Reid and Phelps
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 11, 1884, p. 674
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast.
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Lashing Himself Into Fever Heat”
Topic: Reid and Phelps
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 18, 1884, p. 690
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Mugwumps
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Writing on the Wall”
Topic: Mugwumps
Source: Puck
Date: June 18, 1884, p. 199
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Honest Republican Voter”
Topic: Mugwumps
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 11, 1884, p. 673
Cartoonist: Unknown
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Mistake of a Lifetime”
Topic: Mugwumps
Source: Judge
Date: August 16, 1884, p. 201
Cartoonist: Frank Beard
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... Untitled [Mugwumps]
Topic: Mugwumps
Source: Judge
Date: August 16, 1884, p. 16
Cartoonist: Frank Beard
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Men May Come, and Men May Go”
Topic: Mugwumps
Source: Puck
Date: November 5, 1884, p. 305
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler


Benjamin Butler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Self-made Party”
Topic: Benjamin Butler
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: August 30, 1884, p. 573
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Our Friends, The Enemy”
Topic: Benjamin Butler
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 13, 1884, p. 591
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Cast He Has In His Eye”
Topic: Benjamin Butler
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 11, 1884, p. 678
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “A Cold Day for the Political Tramp”
Topic: Benjamin Butler
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 15, 1884, p. 762
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Butler and Blaine
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “When It Comes to the Lion, Business Between Ben and Jim, It’s Nip and Tuck”
Topic: Butler and Blaine
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 6, 1884, p. 575
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “How They Got Their Heads Together”
Topic: Butler and Blaine
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: September 13, 1884, p. 595
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Helping the Rascals In—A Burglarious Scheme That May Be Suddenly Spoiled”
Topic: Butler and Blaine
Source: Puck
Date: October 22, 1884, p. 226
Cartoonist: Joseph Keppler
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Swinging Round the Circle for Votes”
Topic: Butler and Blaine
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: October 4, 1884, p. 661
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “The Great Boodle Monopoly”
Topic: Butler and Blaine
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 1, 1884, p. 730
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast


Election Results
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Out of a Job Once More!”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Puck
Date: November 5, 1884, p. 298
Cartoonist: Friedrich Graetz
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “What It Means”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 15, 1884, p. 747
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “One of the First-Fruits of the Victory”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 22, 1884, p. 763
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
Click to see a larger version of this cartoon... “Beware! For He Is Very Hungry and Very Thirsty”
Topic: Election Results
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: November 29, 1884, pp. 786-787
Cartoonist: Thomas Nast
 
   

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