German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

Popularization: The symbol of the donkey was further popularized by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s. Nast used the donkey in a series of cartoons to represent the ...

It’s been that way since the mid-1800s. In addition to these two totem animals, the man who thought them up — political cartoonist Thomas Nast — also thought up the characters of Uncle Sam ...

Alamy “Plague on you,” cries Brother Jonathan in an 1813 political cartoon. He wears a colonial ... t really become a household name until Thomas Nast’s sketches in Harper’s Weekly in ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...