Gilded Age Cartoons

1. Who Are These Guys?

2. Nasty and Puckish:
Gilded Age Political
Cartoons

3. 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

4. Cartoons for Every
Election:1860-1912

5. 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

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

7. POTUS Election Issues
•“Waving the Bloody Shirt”
• Tariff
• Civil Service Reform
• The Money Question
(Greenbacks, Gold, Silver or
some Combo?)
•Ethnic and Cultural Issues

10. Puck’s 1880
National Dog Show

12. Sacrificial Lamb

13. 1880:
“The Tariff is a Local
Issue”

14. James A. Garfield
(Half-Breed)

19. Charles J. Guiteau:
“I am a Stalwart of
Stalwarts”

20. Chester A. Arthur:
Stalwart

21. The Honor Role?

23. 1884 Beauty Pageant

24. James G. Blaine:
The Plumed Knight
from Maine

27. Grover Cleveland &
Maria Halpin
“Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa?”

29. Gone to the White House,
Ha Ha Ha!

30. Grover and
Frances Folsom with
Baby Esther

31. Benjamin Harrison

37. Still Waving the Shirt

38. I’m Back!

40. 1896: Every Newspaper
Cartoon with Commentary
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html

41. Grover’s 2
nd
Term Woes
•Depression
•Coxey’s Army
•Homestead
Strike
•Pullman Boycott
•Populists,
Anarchists and
Socialists
•Cancer

44. The Great Commoner

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

48. Arthur Sewall,
Maine Shipbuilder

49. Mary Elizabeth Lease

50. Tom Watson, Populist
VICE-Presidential
Candidate

54. Marcus Hanna:
President Maker?

55. William McKinley,
Goldbug(?) and High
Tariff

57. McKinley’s Tariff Policy

59. Ida McKinley

60. Garret A. Hobart

61. Post Election Blues

63. “Free Imperialism?”

65. Trusts Don’t Go Away

66. Racism and
Imperialism

67. End of an Era?

69. 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