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English: 1893 political cartoon about the opposition in Brooklyn to consolidation with the City of New York. New York City is depicted as a male suitor (right). The people of Brooklyn are depicted as a woman wanting marriage (left). Newspaper editors and politicians of Brooklyn, depicted as the woman's children, hold her back from "marriage" (consolidation) for fear of losing their power.
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Source https://books.google.com/books?id=NQd0Wk228ucC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=%22Selfish%20Objections%20to%20a%20Good%20Match%22&pg=PA358#v=onepage&q&f=false
Author Frederick Burr Opper, cartoonist. Puck, January 18, 1893, p. 358

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