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Thomas Nast criticized... Yellowstone National Park creation takes step forward...
Thomas Nast criticized... Yellowstone National Park creation takes step forward...
Item # 718299
January 18, 1872
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 18, 1872 The front page has stacked column heads including: "The Yellowstone Region as a National Park".
The corresponding article is headed: "A National Play-Ground" which includes: "The bill introduced... by Mr. Claggett, of Montana, to reserve the Yellowstone region for a grand pleasure ground for the people...has been referred to the Committee on Public Lands..." with more. It would officially become the world's first National Park on March 1, 1872.
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.
Complete in 8 pages, scattered light foxing, otherwise quite good.
Category: Post-Civil War
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