Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...images added to our online collection are a number of drawings by cartoonist Thomas Nast. In 1846 at the age of six, Nast immigrated with his mother to the United States and by age 15 he had begun drawing for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.[1] He joined Harper’s Weekly in 1862
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...he now 500 parishioners. Mary would help in funding the building of the first standalone church building for St. Thomas in 1852.[10] St. Thomas Parish would go on to be called the cradle of Catholicism of Delaware County as roughly a dozen parishes would grow out of its various mission
Thomas Lloyd family papers, 1766-1867 (MC 45)
...cluded. In 1791, Lloyd returned to London with his family where he was arrested and placed in Newgate prison for two years for debt. The diary he kept while imprisoned can also be found in the collection. Other materials in the collection, such as correspondence and estate papers, relate to
Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
In the last blog post, Nast’s anti-Irish cartoons were examined, revealing beliefs that the Irish were inferior and unable to handle American liberty. This made the Irish a threat to the United States and thus a focus of Nast’s criticism. Connected to this anti-Irish sentiment was also a strong Anti-Catholic