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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
