Nast's groundbreaking cartoons, such as his iconic depiction of a black family facing a Klansman, used symbols like the elephant and donkey to represent political parties. His dense and ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon ...

The origins of these symbols date back over a century to political cartoons and the nature of American politics at that time. The use of the donkey and elephant symbols in U.S. politics is rooted ...

the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century.

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

In the 1870s, political cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the Democratic donkey in a series of popular cartoons. Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the ...

the Republican elephant, the Tammany tiger, and many more. Before the turn of the 20th century, the daily "editorial" cartoon was a feature of many newspapers, and these illustrations only became ...