This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The collection is made up of full sheets, removed from Harper's Weekly, which contain illustrations by Thomas Nast.
ca. 1860s-1880s
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Thomas Nast was a German-born American cartoonist; contributed to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York Illustrated News, and Harper's Weekly; traveled to Europe in 1860; lived in New York City and Morristown, N.J.; appointed consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1902 where he died of yellow fever 07 Dec. 1902.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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| Subject | ||
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| American wit and humor, Pictorial | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Cartoonists -- United States | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |