The Ignorant Vote - Honors are easy – 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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Step back in time with The Ignorant Vote - Honors are easy, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Ignorant Vote - Honors are easy
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Thomas Nast's wood engraving links two groups of voters, Irish immigrants and African American men, under the sardonic title "The Ignorant Vote: Honors are easy." It appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on December 9, 1876, during the disputed presidential contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, when the result hung on contested returns in several Southern states. Nast, the magazine's leading political cartoonist, often used such images to mock party efforts to win over new and immigrant voters. The print offers a useful view of how postwar suffrage was argued in the popular press.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving after Thomas Nast. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 Dec. 9. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres. contests--1876; Irish in US; African American hist.--Suffrage; Cartoons, U.S.--Dec. 1876; Vote; Artists, Publ. Index; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,071 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133115 |
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