Judge #127

In "The Bad Boy of Fifty Years Ago, and the Old, Old Story of a Crooked Pin," Grant E. Hamilton crafts a quietly charged moment at the polls, where a woman and a Chinese man stand at a door, observed by an Irish man sneering from a window and an African American man watching from within. With all art and writing by Hamilton, this 1884 issue captures a tense, telling glance at a moment frozen in time—a single panel of quiet defiance, drawn in the same hand that penned its story.