Republican Memorabilia

A small collection of GOP memorabilia is housed in a room adjacent to the lobby of the Republican Party's headquarters in Washington. The room is sometimes used for press conferences.
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME

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The elephant has served as a symbol for the party at least since 1874, when cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a pachyderm labeled "The Republican Vote" into a political cartoon published in Harper's Weekly.

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