VICTORIA WOODHULL AND TENNIE CLAFLIN

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Victoria and Tennie driving Wall Street bulls and bears

 

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The Woodhull and Douglass "Movement" - Tremendous Enthusiasm

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How he Lady Brokers secure their clients

 

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The Bewitching Brokers invading a man's world

 

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Victoria  and Frederick Douglass - the  "Ticket of Amalgamation"

ANTHONY COMSTOCK

 

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Comstock taking his sword to
"O Wicked Flesh"

 

300ComstockPosingNude900.jpgAfter Comstock went after the Art Students League, the artists went after him with this nude portrayal

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"Historic Affinities:" Comstock "dallying" with Sappho

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And here is more revenge from the Art Students League

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Anthony Comstock in court: "Your Honor, this woman gave birth to a naked child!"

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As Comstock arrests an artist for drawing a nude woman almost totally submerged, he asks, "Don't you suppose I can imagine what is under the water?"

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"When Comstock ahall have his way."
Another parody from the Art Students

MISCELLANEOUS CARTOONS & A POEM

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Wall Street on Black Friday, after Jim Fisk and Jay Gould's gold corner collapsed

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What Thomas Nast, who first represented the Republicans and Democrats with an elephant and a donkey, thought about Congressional bipartisanship

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Jim Fisk and Jay Gould stealing the Erie Railroad blind

 
THE LITTLER RED LOUNGE;

OR, BEECHER'S FIX

There lived in Brooklyn, high above the bay,
A Pastor old, with spirit light and gay;
Of gentle manners as of generous race,
Blest, with much sense, true inwardness & grace,
Yet, led astray by Venus' soft delights,
He scarce could rule some idle appetites;
For all we know since Noah and the flood,
The best of pastors are but flesh and blood.

- Opening of a poem on Henry Ward Beecher's adultery, 1875.  FULL POEM

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Tableau of the Beecher scandal with Lib Tilton in the lap of Henry Ward Beecher

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Thomas Nast's views on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution and Henry Bergh, founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Horace Greeley tying his presidential candidacy to Boss Tweed.  The newpapers in each man's pocket reads
"WHAT I KNOW ABOUT HONESTY"