File:Nast on Alaska.jpg

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Description Cartoon satirizing the Alaska purchase of 1867. Secretary of State William Seward rubs cooling salve (Alaska) on the feverish (and embattled) president, Andrew Johnson. In the background, "the advantages" are dominion over the Eskimos, and in the poster, Uncle Sam is chased by polar bears.
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Source here. Harper's Weekly
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Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)  wikidata:Q214957 s:en:Author:Thomas Nast
 
Thomas Nast
Alternative names
Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast
Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 27 September 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 7 December 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador
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