Thomas Nast: Fearless and Not Bribed

Thomas Nash portrait: Public Domain
“Albumen silver print of Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896”
“Thomas Nast caricature of Boss Tweed in Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871 Title: The "BRAINS" that achieved the Tammany victory at the Rochester Demo-cratic Convention / Th. Nast. Creator(s): Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist Date Created/Published: 1871. Medi-um: 1 print : wood engraving. Summary: Boss Tweed represented as having a money-bag face. Another iden-tifying feature is the $15,500 diamond stickpin.”
By Napoleon Sarony - https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.80.73, Public Do-main, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144513410

By Harper & Brothers; illustration by Thomas Nast - Source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48782690

Sauce: Lynda Pflueger, Thomas Nast: Political Cartoon-ist (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publications, Inc., 2000), pp. 6, 8, 10. Retold in my words to avoid plagia-rism.

“Called the ‘Father of the American Cartoon," Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was an influential caricaturist and political cartoonist. Remembered for his Civil War illustra-tions in Harper’s Weekly, Nast's political cartoons were also instrumental in the downfall of Boss Tweed and the election of President Ulysses S. Grant. He solidified America's picture of Santa Claus by portraying him as a round, twinkly, elfin figure, which he based on descriptions in Washington Irving’s writings and Clement Moore's poem ‘The Night Before Christmas.’ Nast also popularized the donkey as a symbol representing the Democratic Party and the elephant as a Republican Party symbol.”
https://books.google.com/books/about/Ekkoes_From_Ken-tucky.html?id=xsfmjwEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description

“Thomas Nast (September 26, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the ‘Father of the American Cartoon’.
“He was a sharp critic of ‘Boss’ Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. He created a modern version of Santa Claus (based on the traditional German figures of Saint Nicholas and Weihnachtsmann) and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party (GOP). Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States Federal Government), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, although he did popularize those symbols through his artwork. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886. Nast's influence was so widespread that Theodore Roose-velt once said, ‘Thomas Nast was our best teacher.’”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast