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"HALT!" "This is not the way to repress corruption and to initiate the Negroes into the ways of honest and orderly government?"

Artist Thomas Nast (American ; 1840-1902)
DateOctober 17, 1874
Mediumwood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsOverall: 20 15/16 x 15 7/8 in. (53.2 x 40.3 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PRINTS
Credit LineGift of Irwin and Dianne Steinberg
Terms
  • political cartoon
  • African-American
  • Reconstruction period
  • fighting
  • allegorical figure
  • bayonet
Object number99.1.289
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