Gilded Age Cartoons

Who Are These Guys?

Nasty and Puckish:Gilded Age Political

Cartoons

Gilded Age Cartoonists

• W.A. Rogers• Frederick Opper• Thomas Nast of

Harpers• Joseph Keppler of

Puck• Frank Beard of The

Ram’s Horn• Eugene Zimmerman of

Judge• Grant Hamilton• Bernhard Gilliam • James Wales

Cartoons for Every Election:1860-1912

HarpWeek.com Features

• Cartoons from Harper’s, Judge, Puck & others for each Election

• Detailed Explanation of each Cartoon

• Candidates Biographies• Election Issues and Events• Electioneering and Campaigning

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/Unfortunately No Complete Set

POTUS Election Issues

• “Waving the Bloody Shirt”• Tariff• Civil Service Reform• The Money Question(Greenbacks, Gold, Silver or

some Combo?)• Ethnic and Cultural Issues

Puck’s 1880 National Dog Show

Sacrificial Lamb

1880: “The Tariff is a Local

Issue”

James A. Garfield (Half-Breed)

Charles J. Guiteau:“I am a Stalwart of

Stalwarts”

Chester A. Arthur:Stalwart

The Honor Role?

1884 Beauty Pageant

James G. Blaine:The Plumed Knight

from Maine

Grover Cleveland & Maria Halpin

“Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa?”

Gone to the White House,Ha Ha Ha!

Grover and Frances Folsom with

Baby Esther

Benjamin Harrison

Still Waving the Shirt

I’m Back!

1896: Every Newspaper Cartoon with Commentary

http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html

Grover’s 2nd Term Woes

• Depression• Coxey’s Army• Homestead

Strike• Pullman Boycott• Populists,

Anarchists and Socialists

• Cancer

The Great Commoner

“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!!”

Arthur Sewall, Maine Shipbuilder

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Tom Watson, Populist VICE-Presidential

Candidate

Marcus Hanna: President Maker?

William McKinley, Goldbug(?) and High

Tariff

McKinley’s Tariff Policy

Ida McKinley

Garret A. Hobart

Post Election Blues

“Free Imperialism?”

Trusts Don’t Go Away

Racism and Imperialism

End of an Era?

Internet Resources• http://members.aol.com/dann01/1896a.html

• http://www.graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm

• http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/index.htm

• http://www.iath.virginia.edu/seminar/unit8/home.htm

• http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/history/uscart.htm

• http://www.harpweek.com/

• http://history.smsu.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/Introduction.htm

• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/

• http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html

• http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Rams_Horn/default.htm