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Creation of Yellowstone National Park takes step forward...
Creation of Yellowstone National Park takes step forward...
Item # 711972
January 18, 1872
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 18, 1872
* Yellowstone National Park
* Closer to become the nation's 1st "National Playground"
* Thomas Nast under fire
The front page has a stacked heading which includes: "The Yellowstone Region as a NATIONAL Park", which points to the corresponding article: "A National Play-Ground", with more. Page 4 has an article criticizing Thomas Nast and his political cartoons. The first to come under the writer's knife is Nast's illustration in the Jan. 27, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly of which he writes: "...he shows no sign of terror in *this week's Harper's. The sketch of Mr. David Dudley Field, over the dead body of his best client, is one of the most severe which he has yet produced", with considerably more.
Other news of the day and period advertising is found throughout.
Complete in 8 pages, scattered light foxing, otherwise quite good.
* The illustration does not actually appear in Harper's Weekly until 1 1/2 weeks later. The writer must have had an advanced copy.
Category: Post-Civil War
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