Handcolored Gallery

VERNE: 20, 000 LEAGUES. Only one of its arms wriggled in the air, brandishing the

VERNE: 20, 000 LEAGUES.
Only one of its arms wriggled in the air, brandishing the victim like a feather. One of Captain Nemo's sailors seized by a giant cuttlefish. Engraving after a drawing by Alphonse de Neuville from an 1870 edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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NAST: STATE AID CARTOON. The American River Ganges': one of Thomas Nasts vitriolic

NAST: STATE AID CARTOON.
The American River Ganges': one of Thomas Nast's vitriolic cartoon comments, 1871, on the question of state aid to parochial schools, in which members of the New York City Tweed Ring are shown looking on as Roman Catholic bishops in the guise of crocodiles prepare to attack the public school system

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JACKSON AND NATIVE AMERICANS. The 1833 meeting at the White House of President Andrew Jackson

JACKSON AND NATIVE AMERICANS.
The 1833 meeting at the White House of President Andrew Jackson, the Native American mystic Tenskwatawa ('The Prophet'), and Sauk Chief Black Hawk, who had been captured the previous year during the Black Hawk War. Engraving, 1836

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