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A Cinch. Says Boss Croker to Boss McLaughlin: "Shake!"

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Title:
A Cinch. Says Boss Croker to Boss McLaughlin: "Shake!"
Alternate Title:
A Cinch
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator:
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
Date:
1893
Posted Date:
2015-08-25
ID Number:
1112.01
Collection Number:
8548
File Name:
PJM_1112_01.jpg
Style/Period:
1870 - 1899
Subject:
New York City
Satirical
Politics & Government
Pictorial
Measurement:
40 x 28 (centimeters, height x width)
Notes:
A bird's-eye-view of New York and Brooklyn. The boss of Tammany Hall in New York, Richard Croker, and the boss of the Brooklyn political machine, Hugh McLaughlin, reach across the East River to shake hands in cooperation. Each is anchored by a hand firmly grasping his respective City Hall, and together they mirror the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, then just 10 years old. The editorial text (p. 926) compares the two to the absolute monarchs of England in the 17th century, and derides the "fixed system of despotic rule . . . in each of these nominally democratic communities."

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Source:
Harper's Weekly (vol. 37 no. 1919) 30 September 1893. Print.
Cite As:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Archival Collection:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
Format:
Image
Rights:
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