Thomas Nast, February 1880 cover of Harper's Weekly depicting the Irish Famine of 1879. The illustration is entitled " The Herald of relief from America". A woman is standing on an Irish cliff with a sign saying "Help" with an inscription below saying "We are starving - Ireland".

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