Cartoon, "Stranger Things Have Happened", 1879
date: label: date made
content: 1879
name: label: maker
content: Nast, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Harper’s Weekly featured Thomas Nast’s Democratic donkey for the first time in 1870. Nast had often used the symbol to represent ignorance. Nast featured an elephant for the first time in 1874 to represent the Republican vote. He rendered the animal, unsure of its own weight, plodding through planks representing its own party platform. Nast’s elephant and donkey appeared together in a cartoon for the first time in 1879.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: referenced
content: Political Parties
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.2117.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.2117
label: catalog number
content: 1978.2117.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cartoon
label: Object Name
content: print, cartoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white, black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 41.275 cm x 28.575 cm