Boss Tweed Audiobook : The Images and a five minute sample

  

Audiobooks are heard, not seen, but the story of Boss Tweed is immersed in visual arts: newspaper cartoons, headlines, and charts.   If you've downloaded the audiobook version, read by the excellent Scott Ellis, here are all the images from the story, laid out by chapter, either to follow while you listen or to enjoy later.  If you haven't, here's a quick five-minute sample.

First, click here to hear a five-minute sample of the audiobook.  Now for the images-Chapter 1: Alone

     

                   Harper's Weekly, January 26, 1878

Chapter 2: Riots

     New York Governor Horatio Seymour

      

               Harper's Weekly, September 3, 1864    

                 Thomas Nast

Chapter 3: Ballots      Samuel J. Tilden       Tammany Hall, on 14th Street facing Union Square, 1870s.     

                 Harper's Weekly, October 10, 1868

Chapter 4: SpoilsPeter B. Sweeny                Richard Connolly              A. Oakey Hall  Chapter 5: Park Row                 Evening Telegram, January 6, 1871 Chapter 6: Whitewash     Jimmy O'Brien  -    

 Harpers Weekly, January 14, 1871

Chapter 8: I Pledge Myself to Persevere    Harper's Weekly, April 16, 1870      Harpers Weekly, June 10, 1871Chapter 9: The Wedding     William Tweed, Jr.Chapter 10: July          Evening Telegraph, August 18, 1871      

Harper's Weekly,  July 29, 1871

Chapter 11: Disclosure     New-York Times, July 22, 1871 

   Harper's Weekly, August 19, 1871 

Chapter 12: Panic          Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871.           Harper's Weekly, July 22, 1871                   Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1871                     Harpers Weekly, August 19, 1871 Chapter 13: Tilden

     Frank Leslie's Illustrated, October 7, 1871

Chapter 15: Numbers   New-York Times, October 26, 1871Chapter 17: Marked                       Harper's Weekly, October  21, 1871                   Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1871.  

                     Cartoon by R. Hoyt, 1871

Chapter 18: Law                               Harper's Weekly, December 18, 1875     

                         Harper's Weekly, January 4, 1873

Chapter 20: Escape  

                         Harper's Weekly, July 1, 1876

Chapter 23: Legacy 

     Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871

 

 

 

 

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