Keywords: Gerry-mander-1812-broadside.jpg First broadside printing of the 1812 cartoon The Gerry-mander which led to the coining of the word Gerrymander in the English language This is not the very first publication of the cartoon which was in a Boston newspaper The map shows an electoral district in Essex County Massachusetts with fanciful wings claws etc attached Below the cartoon is a mock-scholarly commentary pretending to consider the Gerry-mander as a rare or semi-mythical beast http //memory loc gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe00/rbpe000/00000100/001dr jpg 1812 unknown PD-US PD-old-100 1812 Gerry-mander cartoon |