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Politics in the Gilded Age
"A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to 'Blow Over'—'Let Us Prey'"
A cartoon denouncing the corruption of New York's Boss Tweed and other Tammany Hall figures, drawn in 1871 by Thomas Nast and published in Harper's Weekly.
Boss Tweed and the Tammany Ring are shown as vultures perched on a cliff trying to wait out the storm of accusations.
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