"No More of those Hideous Monuments!" 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 <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> 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. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011661804/">View original</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=45&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Keppler+%26+Schwarzmann%2C+New+York">Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York</a> 08/19/1885 <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860-1889">1860-1889</a>