"No More of those Hideous Monuments!"

Item

Item sets
Mall Histories
Washington
Title
"No More of those Hideous Monuments!"
Date
08/19/1885
Description
This political cartoon was printed in New York in 1885. Complaining about all of the monuments being erected to honor our nation's history in the wake of the turmoil of the Civil War, the captions proclaims "No more of those hideous monuments!" Monuments from the National Mall are featured prominently in the cartoon, including the Washington Monument which appears as a smokestack. This shows the contested nature of the Mall and its many memorials, which were not universally popular in their own times.
Publisher
Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York
Source
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. View original.
Coverage
1860-1889