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Born September 27, 1840 • Landau • Germany
Died December 7, 1902 (aged 62) • Guayaquil • Ecuador

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Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast: self-caricature
Thomas Nast: "This Is a White Man's Government"
Political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing members of the Tweed Ring as vultures with human faces perched on a carcass in a rocky landscape.
Santa Claus
Black and white political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing a donkey labeled Copperhead Papers kicking a sleeping lion labeled Hon. E. M. Stanton, with trees and the U.S. Capitol in the background.
Nast, Thomas
Political cartoon: A Burden He Has to Shoulder
Ulysses S. Grant for president
Thomas Nast: “Patience on a Monument”
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