The President's New-Year Messenger

Description

The caption reads, “This Year Do Your Duty Like a Man,” as President Cleveland send his New-Year messenger forward with the money bag of $1 million for the Freedmen’s Bank depositors. They were waiting for their payment for 13 years after the bank failed.

Object Information

Date Created:

January 1, 1887

Local ID:

TN2011.26

Collection:

Collection of Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

Citation:

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), The President's New-Year Messenger, Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1887, TN2011.26

Creator(s):

Thomas Nast

Classification:

Engraving

Rights:

Public Domain

Appears In

Resource Kit
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

The 22nd and 24th President: Thomas Nast Illustrates Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897), up until this year when President Donald Trump won the office for a second time. In 1884 Nast, along with Harper’s Weekly editor George Curtis, broke with the Republican Party to support the Democratic Candidate Grover Cleveland. This Resource Kit explores Nast's illustrations in support of the first two-term President serving non-consecutive terms, his switch from a Republican to a Democrat, and Nast's waning influence as a political cartoonist.

Created by: Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

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