This is a clipping from Harper’s Weekly dated March 10, 1866. The black and white image is entitled “Caught Napping.” It depicts a schoolmaster about to strike a student sleeping in class, while other ...
On January 15, 1870, political illustrator Thomas Nast published a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly that would come to be known as the Democratic Party’s symbol. The cartoon was titled “A Live (Donkey) ...