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The Old New York County Courthouse, known as the Tweed Courthouse, got its nickname from “Boss” Tweed. In a series of cartoons for Harper’s Weekly, Nast helped bring Tweed down.
Boss Tweed, depicted by cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1871. Wikipedia Party business. The Gilded Age, which lasted from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century ...