Item Information

Civil (?) Rights.  Caption: The Boss -- "Cheer up boys, there's no use crying over spilt milk and then you know as long as we count the votes we're safe"  Handwritten note [under title] reads "The board of public works?"

Dublin Core

Title

Civil (?) Rights. Caption: The Boss -- "Cheer up boys, there's no use crying over spilt milk and then you know as long as we count the votes we're safe" Handwritten note [under title] reads "The board of public works?"

Subject

New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898
New York (N.Y.)--History--Irish Americans

Creator

Nast, Thomas

Source

Civil rights. New York : Baker & Goodwin, printers, 1871. Plate [no page number, after p. 48]
Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2006 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5684814_000/pages/ldpd_5684814_000_00000063.html

Date

1871

Language

eng

Identifier

ldpd_dnyc_5684814_000_00000063

MODS

Key Date

1871

Type of Date

exact

Repository Name

No repository

Notes

Political cartoon. In lower right hand corner: Am. Photo-Lithographic Col N.Y./Osborne's process/

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Citation

Nast, Thomas , “Civil (?) Rights. Caption: The Boss -- "Cheer up boys, there's no use crying over spilt milk and then you know as long as we count the votes we're safe" Handwritten note [under title] reads "The board of public works?",” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 19, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/4066.

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