Boss Tweed Audiobook: The Images!!

  

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.  

Chapter 1: Alone

 Harper's Weekly, January 26, 1878

Chapter 2: Riots

     New York Governor Horatio Seymour

           

      Thomas Nast

           

Chapter 3: Ballots

 

  Samuel J. Tilden

 Tammany Hall, on 14th Street facing Union Square.

    

 

      

                 

Chapter 4: Spoils

                

Peter B. Sweeny 

       Richard Connolly    

 A. Oakey Hall

Chapter 5: Park Row

Tweed and friends at their height of power, celebrating at an annual ball at the Academy of Music.

          

Louis Jennings, New-York Times managing editor in 1870.

 

Chapter 6: Whitewash

James "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, 1871

Chapter 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

Nast's depiction of panic among The Ring after the New York Times disclosures.   Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871. 

        

 

Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1871

                  

  

    Harpers Weekly, August 19, 1871

               

 

Chapter 13: Tilden

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  Frank Leslie's Illustrated, October 7, 1871

   

Chapter 15: Numbers

  

 New-York Times, October 26, 1871

Chapter 17: Marked

     

   Harper's Weekly, October  21, 1871

               

 

 

      Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1871.

           

  

       Cartoon by R. Hoyt, one of many artists following Nast's example satirizing the Tweed Ring, 1871.

              

Chapter 18: Law

  

  Harper's Weekly, December 18, 1875

                           

     

Judge Noah Davis

Lawyer Wheeler Peckham

      

                   

Chapter 20: Escape

 

 

  Harper's Weekly, July 1, 1876

                       

Chapter 23: Legacy

  

    The lasting image of Tweed as money-grabbing pol, created by Thomas Nast. Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871