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Bernhard Gillam

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Colored cartoon of a man herding labeled fat pigs down a dirt road past onlookers and a Civil Service Reform signpost.

A hard job with the hogs

1885

Colorful 1885 cartoon of two caricatured figures on horse and camel gloating over fleeing soldiers in a battle scene.

A surprise to themselves

1885

Colour political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, 1885, showing a standing statesman beside a scroll of independence amid agitated

A new declaration of independence in the year 1885

1885

Colored 1884 political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing a caricatured moneylender with a bond, facing a crowd of men near a

Shylock’s bad bargain

1884

Colored political cartoon of a large ape-like figure in a top hat standing over congressmen and kneeling men in a chamber.

The bugaboo of congress

1885

Political cartoon of newspaper boats firing on stacks of corrupt bills before the Capitol and Treasury, by Bernhard Gillam, 1

Another bombardment - the newspaper fleet firing on the Bedouins in Washington

1882

Colored 1884 political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing men with confession signs facing a giant toga-clad figure near a pr

‘Blaine will be vindicated in November’ -N.Y. Tribune

1884

Colour political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, 1884: an old man climbs a garden wall as a bulldog labeled Cleveland looks on.

Out of the frying-pan into the fire

1884

Colored 1885 print of drowsy figures asleep in a castle hall around a sleeping princess on a bed above steps.

‘The sleeping party’

1885

Political cartoon of Uncle Sam and officials wading through a corrupt swamp beneath a marble Peace 1865 monument.

A great past and a pitiful present

1885

Political cartoon: ragged bearded Democracy figure on a road faces well-dressed men drinking at the Washington Inn.

Rip Van Winkle’s return

1883

Colorful 1883 political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing caricatured men with labeled bags and a woman in a striped dress.

The political Sam’ls of Posen

1883

Colour political cartoon of caricatured men in uniform playing drums labeled with reform slogans outside a Political Armory.

Let the political army have new drums also!

1883

Colored 1884 cartoon of a chained worker on a Trade Unions block being auctioned as manufacturers watch beside factories.

The slave-market of to-day

1884

Colour cartoon of caricatured men crowded on a raft in stormy seas, with a distant capitol dome on the horizon.

Blundering again!

1883

Colour political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, 1883: Uncle Sam strides past caricatured politicians, some frozen on ice at left

Put ’em on ice!

1883

Colour political cartoon of caricatured men in military uniforms marching through snow with banners and a bulldog.

Too many leaders

1884

Colored cartoon by Bernhard Gillam showing men fitting and altering old garments in a tailor shop labeled Cleveland's Clothin

The rehabilitation of the Democratic party

1885

Colored caricature of men shipwrecked in a stormy sea near rocks, with a distant ship and a seagull carrying a newspaper.

They saw their ‘Flying Dutchman’ - it crossed their path, and they were lost

1885

Colorful caricature of a navy yard with labeled warships, an investigator pointing at a restrained official on a dock.

‘Ship-building for repairs’

1885

Colour political cartoon by Bernhard Gillam, 1884: caricatured men in a boathouse beside a rower pushing off, with a crowd on

The political Courtney

1884

Colored caricature of men at a formal dinner table with labeled dishes, a dog, and fireworks, by Bernhard Gillam, 1884.

Thanksgiving day, 1884 - ‘let us be thankful!’

1884

Colored caricature of a dog show where political figures appear as dogs in pens before a judges' stand.

Our national dog-show

1883

Colour caricature of a robed man on a donkey aiding a wounded figure labelled Civil Service, with other figures on a desert r

The good samaritan

1885

Colour political cartoon of a crossbow-wielding caped man beside a Tammany hat on a pole, with armored guards and a mounted d

William Tell Cleveland will not bow to the hat

1883

Colored lithograph of a bust draped in mourning crepe, a kneeling figure, wreaths labeled Southern and Northern Soldiers, and

Peace, and the good will of all men

1885

Colour political cartoon of four ragged bearded men with rifles facing Uncle Sam at a market counter, with ships and a city b

The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age

1885

Colored 1882 cartoon of a ghostly figure above a New York street with auction signs and a coffin inscribed to A.T. Stewart.

Shade of A.T.S.- ‘Oh, if I could only find my body!’

1882

Colored cartoon of a stout leader in a cape facing a ragged crowd of men with empty tin cups before government buildings.

The new leader and the old chorus

1885

Colored cartoon of armored robber barons menacing a kneeling taxpayer beneath a monopoly castle above a harbor of closed fact

Our robber barons

1882

Colored cartoon of a man on a donkey facing an approaching train labeled Independents, with a fallen elephant and clown below

Mr. Hill tries it on

1885

Colored caricature of a man on a coffin gambling with Death amid shipwreck, fire, and collapse, with insurance labels.

Gambling with death

1883