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Bernhard Gillam

76 works

Browse 76 works by Bernhard Gillam from 3 museums. Every work here links to the museum that holds it, and anyone can save it at up to 2,500 pixels on the long side without paying.

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Colour cartoon of a ship National Credit threatened by a silver waterspout, with a cannon labeled Repeal of Silver Coinage Ac

Our good ship ‘National Credit’ in danger from a Silver-Spout

1885

Colored caricature of a dancing man surrounded by seated minstrel musicians with banjos and tambourines, with song lyrics bel

Grand opening of Cleveland, Gorman and Bayard’s minstrels at Washington

1895

Satirical map of North America on a hanging scroll, with a small Cuba labeled as a morsel near the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trouble In Cuba

1895

Colored 1885 cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing crowded statues in a park, with Uncle Sam and a boy looking on at right.

No more of those hideous monuments!

1885

Colored caricature of a lion beside a Civil Service Reform stone, watched by monkeys labeled Boss and Dynamite in a tree.

Why they dislike him - he will not prove himself a cat’s-paw in the enterprise

1884

Colour cartoon of politicians as Egyptian mummies in a tomb vault, with a sphinx, a brazier and a chained figure.

The receiving-vault of the Republican politicians who defied public morality

1884

Colour cartoon of a jester presenting a pile of gold coins labeled surplus to a crowd of costumed courtiers and officials.

Puck’s plan to relieve the country of two embarrassments - give Grant the surplus, and let him spend it on a little c…

1884

Colour cartoon of top-hatted politicians on a rocky hill viewing the Capitol, with broken commandment tablets in the foregrou

Barred out from the promised land

1885

Two-panel color caricature: a man in a top hat lures a companion outside a Monopoly Club, and men play cards in a back room.

The magnetic bunco-steerer and his confederate

1884

Hand-colored 1884 political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing armed slave hunters with dogs capturing a family in a field.

John A. Logan in 1859

1884

Colored caricature of men queuing at a U.S. recruiting office, tagged with rejection reasons, with Uncle Sam at a scale.

The Presidential recruiting-office

1884

Colored cartoon of a giant in a tricorn hat towing ships away from tiny figures on a shore, by Bernhard Gillam, 1885.

Gulliver-Cleveland takes possession of the enemy’s fleet and deprives them of their strength

1885

Colour caricature of a horse show in a stable, with politicians depicted as horses and men in crowded stalls.

‘Puck’ is not going to be left - he has a horse-show of his own

1883

Colored cartoon of a giant in colonial dress holding a small church while tiny men pull ropes and climb ladders around him.

Gulliver and the party Liliputians - they cannot bind him

1885

Colored caricature of a crowded tavern with a woman in green, a man sprawled on a bench, and a uniformed man holding a snuff

A new way of ‘waking’ the Democratic shaughraun

1883

Colour cartoon of a cardinal embracing a woman labeled Civil Service while richly dressed men in period costume look on.

Richelieu’s defiance

1885

Colour caricature of men on a sailing ship deck, a central leader pointing as a crowd reacts with raised fists and kneeling f

Columbus Cleveland and his mutinous crew - ‘This ship shall not turn back!’

1885

Colorful 1884 caricature of political figures as Greek gods on Olympus, with a top-hatted man playing a lyre among clouds.

The olympus of corruption - ‘Apollo strikes the lyre and charms the gods’

1884

Colour political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, 1885: a Hercules figure with a club faces caricatured obstacles on a rocky path.

Foes in his path - the herculean task before our next president

1885

Colored cartoon of a mounted man leading a crowd of paupers, convicts and crying babies past a watching man in a top hat.

Getting them into line for 1884

1883

Satirical 1884 print of European nobles displayed like merchandise while American heiresses and wealthy men look on in a hall

American millions and foreign nobility - the market where our girls buy - and get sold

1884

Colour caricature of a Santa Claus figure labeled Cleveland at a fireplace, with politicians in nightclothes in bed around hi

A moment of anxiety - who is going to get left

1884

Colored political cartoon of robed men kneeling at a font labeled Civil Service Reform, watched by a cardinal in red and a cr

Compulsory baptism

1885

Colored 1885 caricature by Bernhard Gillam of Uncle Sam at a market while Russia and England shake hands across the street.

Peace, but not business

1885

Satirical 1884 cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing caricatured figures as dime museum exhibits, with a snake charmer and tiger

The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaign

1884

Colored cartoon of politicians in a desert struggling with a camel labeled Tariff Bill loaded with Amendments crates.

Blundering in a perilous position

1884

Colored 1884 political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing figures approaching a presidential chair under Washington and Linco

The honor of the country in danger

1884

Colour political cartoon of an armored figure on a magnet pulling falling caricatured politicians labeled with scandals.

His boasted magnetism - and the kind of metal it attracts

1884

Colored cartoon of robed men building a plank ark on a cliff while a crowd of musicians celebrates below.

Building the ark

1884

Colored 1884 political cartoon of a robed man striking a rock as a crowd of biblical-style caricatures reaches for water.

The true inwardness of the Tilden boom - the democratic tribes clamor for Sammy to strike his rocks

1884

Colour political cartoon of men aiming a cannon at Fort Labor under a banner reading Down with the Workingman, by Bernhard Gi

The allies under the new flag - the Republicans and the monopolists train their guns on the workingmen

1883

Colour political cartoon of a crowd chasing a fleeing man through a street, with protest signs against a monopolist and a bul

‘Stop thief!’

1884