Caught In A Trap; The Result of the Third-Term Hoax

by Thomas Nast, Harper'S Weekly

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New York: Harper's Weekly, 1874. Woodcut. Page measures 16 3/8 x 11 1/2 . A full page political cartoon referencing the midterm elections of 1874. The image shows an elephant, representing the Republican party, falling into a trap. The cartoon was published as a sequel to a previous image published on November 7, and is one of the first cartoons to use the elephant as a Republican symbol.From the November 21,

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