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Cartoon relating to Republican defeat of Tammany Hall candidates in 1875 elections. Uncle Sam is warning elephant ("Republican vote") to avoid entering "Reformed Tammany Hall", having just emerged, sweating, from "Third Term Trap, 1875."

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1875 Nov. 6.

Reference copy may be in LOT 4405.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: Tammany Hall; Pol. elections...; Cartoons, US Nov. 1875; "Uncle Sam"; Artists, Pub. I.; Pol. parties; Shelf.

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01/01/1875
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Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
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