[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Democratic donkey (Cockrell) going to inflate himself (on inflation Thistles)]" – Vintage Wall Art
![[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Democratic donkey (Cockrell) going to inflate himself (on inflation Thistles)]", 1876 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/94/94b1e475a68a-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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[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Democratic donkey (Cockrell) going to inflate himself (on inflation Thistles)]" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Daily Graphic cartoons of the 1876 Pres. campaign: Democratic donkey (Cockrell) going to inflate himself (on inflation Thistles)]"
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The Democratic donkey, identified as Cockrell in the title, is shown about to puff himself up, with inflation thistles marking the joke. The Daily Graphic, New York's first illustrated daily, ran topical cartoons like this during the bitter 1876 contest between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. Currency inflation was a live question that year, so the gag depends on readers knowing where each party stood on paper money. Thomas Nast had made the donkey a Democratic emblem only a few years earlier, which is why the animal would have been recognized at once.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Democratic donkey (Symbolic character)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,192 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142980 |
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