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This day in history: Democrats adopt the donkey as their mascot
On January 15, 1870, political illustrator Thomas Nast published a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly that would come to be known as ...
On this day in 1870, Harper’s Weekly ran Thomas Nast’s drawing “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion.” The depiction by Nast a leading political cartoonist, solidified the donkey as the symbol of the ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
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