Give the natives a chance, Mr. Carl. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Give the natives a chance, Mr. Carl. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Give the natives a chance, Mr. Carl.
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Thomas Nast drew this wood engraving for the March 13, 1880, issue of *Harper's Weekly*, and its title, a plea to "give the natives a chance," is addressed to Carl Schurz, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Hayes. The record's subject tags point to Indians and voting, which places the cartoon in the debates of an election year over who counted as a citizen and voter. Nast was the magazine's leading political cartoonist, and his pointed captions were meant to steer readers toward a position as much as to amuse them.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving after Nast. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, (1880 March 13), p. 173. Ref. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons; B.I.; Indians; Voting; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 989 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150924 |
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