[Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose] – Historic Reproduction
![[Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose], 1912 — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/84ec3fa8e7be-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose], preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose]
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In this 1912 cartoon, Woodrow Wilson rides a donkey, William Howard Taft sits on an elephant, and Theodore Roosevelt, mounted on a bull moose, bites at Taft as the three race toward the White House. The animals stand for the parties: the donkey for the Democrats, the elephant for the Republicans, and the moose for Roosevelt's Progressive "Bull Moose" campaign. Roosevelt had split from his former protégé Taft over policy, and the split divided Republican votes that year, letting Wilson win the election in November. The drawing is probably from the Washington Star, a Washington newspaper, and it shows how cartoonists used animal symbols to make a crowded contest easy to read.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) American.Drawings. |
| Notes | Title devised by cataloger. Probably published in: Washington star. (DLC/PP-1945:R1.519) This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860128. |
| Subjects | Taft, William H. (William Howard),--1857-1930. Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924. Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,276 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111894 |
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