On This Day: Republican elephant symbol used for first time

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's ...

[Overseas Edition Vol. 14] America's "Elephant" was born as a beast running wild in a panic—Nast's "The Third-Term Panic"

Thomas Nast, "The Third-Term Panic," Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1874 / Public domain, via Smithsonian National Museum of ...