Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
...ast (1840-1902) Described as the father of the American political cartoon, Thomas Nast is an influential figure in U.S. history. Published in Harper’s Weekly, his cartoons were famous for attacking the New York City political machine of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Nast is also credited with creating the Republican
Thomas Cooke Middleton papers, 1859-1917 (MC 7)
...ladelphia (ACHS), an organization he helped found in 1884. He also served as editor of the Society’s journal, the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society from 1899 to 1905. Middleton wrote many essays on local Catholic history and the Augustinian Order. This collection contains correspondence, most of which relates