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What I Know About... // Gratz Brown Nametag // Anything To Beat Grant // This Is Not An Organ // Clasp Hands Over The Bloody Chasm // Go West, Young Man, Go West

Besides Nast’s mastery of caricature, knowledge of classic literature and mythology, inventive mind, and impish sense of humor, the incorporation of catchphrases and symbols into his cartoons was one of his most effective, and sometimes devastating, techniques.  That skill is nowhere on better display than in his images of Horace Greeley.  This website features Nast’s Greeley cartoons organized by four catchphrases—“What I Know About…”; “Clasp Hands over the Bloody Chasm”; “Anything to…”; and “Go West, Young Man, Go West”—along with two symbols—the Gratz Brown nametag and the organ that was not an organ.  Nast’s relentless use of these epithets and emblems merged into a negative public image that helped bury the candidacy of Horace Greeley.

Nast reduced Greeley's vice-presidential running mate, Governor Gratz Brown of Missouri, to insignificance by depicting him as a nametag on Greeley's coattail.

May 25, 1872, p. 408

June 1, 1872, p. 428

June 8, 1872, p. 448

July 6, 1872, p. 528

July 6, 1872, p. 536

July 20, 1872, p. 573

August 3, 1872, p. 596

August 3, 1872, p. 605

August 3, 1872, p. 608

August 10, 1872, p. 624

August 17, 1872, p. 637

August 17, 1872, pp. 640-641

August 17, 1872, p. 648

August 24, 1872, p. 652

August 31, 1872, p. 665

August 31, 1872, p. 668

September 7, 1872, p. 692

September 14, 1872, p. 713

September 14, 1872, p. 716

September 14, 1872, p. 728

September 21, 1872, p. 729

September 21, 1872, p. 732

September 28, 1872, p. 745

September 28, 1872, pp. 752-753

September 28, 1872, p. 760

October 5, 1872, p. 764

October 12, 1872, p. 785

October 12, 1872, p. 792

October 19, 1872, p. 804

October 19, 1872, p. 813

October 19, 1872, p. 816

October 26, 1872, pp. 832-833

October 26, 1872, p. 840

November 2, 1872, p. 841

November 2, 1872, p. 845

November 2, 1872, p. 848

November 2, 1872, p. 856

November 9, 1872, p. 865

November 9, 1872, pp. 872-873

November 9, 1872, p. 877

November 23, 1872, p. 905

 



 

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