The name Thomas Nast may now be known now principally to those who do crossword puzzles — he’s the four-letter answer for “Boss Tweed’s foe” — but his works live on in American ...

The drawing was by 22-year-old Thomas Nast, who was born in Germany and came to New York with his family at age 6. Nast said he based his Santa on a German version of Saint Nicholas, Pelze-Nicol.

The political cartoonist who drew the elephant and donkey as symbols of the two political parties, Thomas Nast chronicled the hopes and later the disillusions of the mid-nineteenth-century’s ...

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 ...

SOMETIME IN 1756, when the major political force in New York was Buckingham Palace, several stout citizens formed Neptune Engine 6, a firefighting company quartered on Crown St. near Kip St., which… ...

Thomas Nast's art, such as this example that Harper's Weekly published in October 1876, would often reflect a strong anti-Irish bias. By Tom Deignan.

Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with both of them — he introduced the donkey first, on Jan. 19, 1870: 155 years ago Sunday.

The controversy swirling around 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who died more than 100 years ago, and his entry into the New Jersey Hall of Fame can be put on hold for at least a year.

THOMAS NAST'S LECTURE.; AN AMUSING ENTERTAINMENT REMINISCENCES OF CARICATURING. Share full article. Nov. 19, 1873. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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 ...