Gillam, Frederick Victor (sold)
Frederick Victor Gillam (c. 1858 - January 29, 1920) was an American political cartoonist, best known for his work in Judge magazine. His work was also published in The St. Louis Dispatch, Denver Times, New York World and New York Globe. He was born in Yorkshire, England and his family immigrated to the United States when Gillam was six year old. His older brother Bernhard Gillam (1856 - 1896) was a famous cartoonist as well, leading Gillam to sign his work 'Victor' or F. Victor' until his brother's death. He was also a member of the New York Press Club and New York Lotos Club. Gillam died in Brooklyn, New York on January 29, 1920.
Criticizes President Cleveland and his slow response to economic depression.
Going Backward - The Democratic Policy.
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Using the 1893 Chicago World's Fair as its setting, this 1893 Bernhard Gillam political cartoon blasts the government's slow and outdated response to the Panic of 1893, at that point, the worst economic disaster in American history. In many ways this cartoon is also pertinent to the current times, when we are once again facing record unemployment - this time due to a poor government response to the Covid-19 virus. (more details)
Lampoons America's 'hunger' to annex Cuba even before the Spanish-American War.
Map of the United States. / The Trouble in Cuba. Uncle Sam - 'I've had my eye on that morsel for a long time ; guess I'll have to take it in!'
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This is an 1895 Victor Gillam political cartoon map of North America. Anthropomorphized as Uncle Sam, North America is preparing to eat Cuba, depicted here as a small fish. The United States acts as most of Sam's head, with Washington, D.C. as his eye and Florida as his nose. The western half of the U.S is colored white, to provide the illusion of hair. Canada functions as Sam's hat, while Mexico serves as his mouth and chin, and Central America, again colored white, is his beard. The Gulf of Mexico highlights Sam's gaping mouth and his voracious hunger to consume Cuba. This cover predates the Spanish-American War by two-and-a-half years, when the U.S. would wrest control of the Caribbean island from Spain. (more details)
A political cartoon celebrating America's expansion across the globe, both in territory and through influence.
A Thing Well Begun is Half Done.
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This is an 1899 Victor Gillam political cartoon heralding the inauguration of construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Illustrating most of the Western Hemisphere, Uncle Sam is quoted as saying 'Finish the canal, McKinley, and make our national expansion complete.' ... (more details)
American exports of manufactured good surged by nearly ninety percent between 1895-1900.
The Whittler for the World.
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This is an 1899 Victor Gillam political cartoon highlighting the rise of the United States into a net exporter of manufactured goods. The cartoon depicts Uncle Sam at center, seated on a coal mine on an island, whittling a locomotive. The leaders of the rest of the world, including Italy, Russia, Japan, China, Austria, France, and England, surround him on the shores of both oceans holding bags of money (presumably gold) and clamoring to purchase American built manufactured goods. Orders for engines, bridges, phonographs, and other manufactured goods lie at Uncle Sam's feet, while steel rails, engines, locomotives, steel freight cars, reapers, and typewriters crowd the ground around his feet, waiting to be sent to their eager recipients. (more details)
Ridicules the supporters of free silver for winning only one election in 1898 - for governor of Nebraska.
A Great Joke - Bryan Carried Such a Little Bit.
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This is an 1899 Victor Gillam political cartoon ridiculing the paltry election returns for supporters of William Jennings Bryan and the free silver movement in the elections of 1899, published in Judge magazine. Here, William Jennings Bryan is dressed in a traditional harlequin outfit (a favorite way of depicting him in Judge) and is being lectured by the Republican boss and Senator Mark Hanna about the losses suffered by candidates who supported free silver in the 1899 elections. Other major figures in the Republican party, including President William McKinley, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, and Senator Thomas Platt of New York, are illustrated enjoying mocking the fool and his belief in free silver. (more details)
A golf themed political cartoon mocking the continuing Alaska boundary dispute between the United States and Canada.
Hit It Hard, Uncle Sam!
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This is a golf-themed Victor Gillam political cartoon from the August 19,1899 issue of Judge magazine most likely mocking the government's inability to reach an acceptable resolution to the Alaska boundary dispute between Canada and the United States. Gillam's cartoon illustrates Uncle Sam playing a round of golf with John Bull, his British counterpart. President McKinley is acting as Uncle Sam's caddy, carrying a star-spangled golf bag that reads 'Cabinet' and is filled with clubs bearing caricatures of different cabinet secretaries. Bull's caddy is Canada, and they watch while Uncle Sam prepares to hit a golf ball labeled 'Alaskan Dispute' with a club labeled Hay, a reference to John Hay, McKinley's Secretary of State. Hay was a very successful politician and diplomat, serving in various government capacities from Lincoln's administration until his death while serving as President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State. The caption, stated by McKinley, reads, 'If you don't drive the ball out of sight with the stick you have (Hay), use this new one (labeled as the driver and bearing the likeness of Elihu Root, then the Secretary of War). (more details)
William Jennings Bryan lost on the free silver ticket in 1896. Eastern Democrats were sickened by the idea of losing again in 1900 with the same candidate and the same platform.
Embalmed. This is What is Making the Eastern Democrats Sick.
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This is an 1899 Victor Gillam political cartoon ridiculing the resurgence of Free Silver as a part of the political platform of the Democratic party in the election of 1900. The cartoon depicts a rotten package of Dem Free-Silver Brand 'Free-Silver Mule' that is making all the major Eastern Democrats sick. Several democrats are illustrated sprawled on the ground, while David Bennett Hill (August 29, 1843 - October 20, 1910), then the Democratic governor of New York State, holds his nose and reaches for the package. Hill was even a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination in 1900, but lost to Adlai Stevenson I, a former Vice President. The other Democrat that Gillam identifies is Richard Welstead Crocker Sr. (November 24, 1843 - April 22, 1922), who was better known as 'Boss Croker' and was a leader of New York's notorious Tammany Hall. (more details)