Title: Fifth Avenue, Noon
Summary: “Print shows a crowded scene on 5th Avenue in New York City.”
Contributor Names: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935, artist
Created/Published: 1916
Medium: 1 print, etching
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Title: Among the Sky-Scrapers of Lower Broadway, New York
Summary: “Stereograph showing several skyscrapers along busy downtown street crowded with pedestrians, and horse and carts.”
Contributor Names: Graves, C.H. -1943
Created/Published: Sept. 16, 1905
Medium: 1 photograph : print on card mount
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Title: Tammany’s Four Knaves
Summary: “A hand grasps four playing cards, an allusion to the taxpayer as the player to which the cards were dealt. The cards represent the kings of each of the four suits, but their faces belong to the four principal members of Tammany’s notorious Tweed Ring. From left to right are: William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, dominant force of Tammany from 1866 to 1871, representing the King of Diamonds with a ribbon across his chest labeled “Americus;” Peter B. Sweeny, the devious brains behind the Tweed gang, as the King of Clubs; Tammany mayor, Ambraham Oakey Hall (also called ‘Elegant Oakey,’ responsible for the unscrupulous cover-up of frauds perpetrated by the group, as the King of Hearts; Comptroller, Richard ‘Slippery Dick’ Connolly, as the King of Spades.”
Contributor Names: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
Created/Published: August 30, 1890
Medium: 1 drawing : India ink over pencil on watercolor board
Source Collection: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)
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Title: The Day We Celebrate; Our Youngest Contributor’s Idea of It
Summary: “Several Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade. Policeman and politicians march in the streets, carrying such banners as “Erin Go Bray” and “Horay for Irlan.” Children in tattered clothing follow the parade. A drunk lies against a lamp post. The end of the parade route is ‘City Hall,’ New York’s Tammany Hall.”
Contributor Names: Powers, Thomas E., 1870-1939, artist
Created/Published: March 15, 1894
Medium: 1 drawing : India ink over pencil on bristol board
Source Collection: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)
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Title: Mulberry Ring – Growing Fat on Ill Gotten Gains
Summary: “A bulldog, dressed in the uniform of the New York City police department located on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, leans against a billboard, brandishing a billy club. The policeman is surrounded by signs which point to the corrupt ways of the “Mulberry Ring,” labeled as the “The Finest Despots in the World.””
Contributor Names: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist
Created/Published: April 17, 1892
Notes: “The cartoon was inspired by a feud that erupted between New York City police officials and the Reverend Charles Parkhurst. One Sunday in February 1892, Parkhurst gave a sermon from his Madison Square Presbyterian Church on the corruption and graft within the police department. He charged police officials with accepting money in turn for promotions, and demanding fees from saloons, prostitution houses, and pool halls, for protection from arrest. The sermon, later made public in The World, a New York newspaper, provoked outrage within the community.”
Medium: 1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with scraping out on white coated stock…
Source Collection: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)
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Title: Turn in Broad St., New York
Summary: Stock Exchange in background
Contributor Names: Pan American Photo Art Co.
Created/Published: 1905
Medium: 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph
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Title: People on Razzle Dazzle Ride, at Coney Island, New York City
Contributor Names: Alfred S. Campbell Art Co.
Created/Published: 1896
Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph
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Title: The Rude Descending on Sulzer
Summary: “Cartoon Shows New York state governor William Sulzer beneath Tammany boss Charles F. Murphy and Frawley as chaos erupts in the state senate and assembly. William Sulzer was impeached in October 1913 as a result of an argument he had with Tammany Hall in New York City. Cesare has used a cubist style in this cartoon, referring to Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, which was included in the famous Armory Exhibition that opened in New York City in February 1913.”
Contributor Names: Cesare, Oscar Edward, 1885-1948, artist
Created/Published: 1913
Medium: 1 drawing on layered paper: pencil and ink with scraping out
Source Collection: Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Title: Institute of Musical Art, Claremont Ave. and 122nd St.
Summary: Exterior of the Institute of Musical Art, New York City
Contributor Names: Underhill, Irving, -1960, photographer
Created/Published: 1910
Medium: 1 photographic print
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Gilded Age and Progressive Era Art of New York City 
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