Jewels Among Swine - Harper's Weekly, June 13, 1874
Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902
1874
Wood engraving on paper
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2015.42.32
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
JEWELS AMONG SWINE. / “The police authorities, that do not enforce the laws against the liquor traffic, that do not suppress gambling or houses of ill repute…distinguished themselves on / Saturday by arresting forty-three women who went on the streets to sing and pray, and marching them to the station-house.” – Cincinnati Gazette
Provenance
Found in collection; catalogued, 2015.
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