National Museum of American History
Cartoon, "What Are You Going to Do About It", 1872
Tammany Hall · 1872
Editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast continued the tradition of using animals as symbols in party politics and sharpened it as an art form. In this satirical cartoon that appeared on August 31, 1872 in Harper’s Weekly, Nast depicts New York City’s corrupt Tammany Society as a fierce tiger, being whitewashed by Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley.
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