Cartoon, "The Third Term Panic", 1874
date: label: associated date
content: 1874 11 07
name: label: associated institution
content: Republican National Party
notes: label: Description
content: Cartoonist Thomas 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.
topic: label: classified
content: Political Caricatures
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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
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1874.A22
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1874.A22
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cartoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in; 26.67 cm x 40.005 cm