Gillam, Bernhard (sold)
Bernhard Gillam (April 28, 1856 - January 19, 1896) was an American political cartoonist. Born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, Gillam and his parents immigrated to the United States in 1866 and settled in New York City. He found a job as a copyist in a lawyer's office but soon became interested in engraving. Following the success of having a few cartoons printed in the New York Graphic, Gillam shifted to cartooning. Over the course of his career, his work was published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, Puck magazine, and Judge magazine, where he became director-in-chief in 1886. Gillam's cartoons played a major role in Grover Cleveland's election to the presidency in 1884 when one of his most remembered cartoons depicted his opponent, James G. Blaine, covered in tattoos referencing corruption charges from his political past. Gillam died of typhoid fever in Canajoharie, New York, in 1896.
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1893 Chicago World's Fair as its setting, this 1893 Bernhard Gillam political cartoon blasts the government's slow and outdated response to the Panic of 1893, at that point, the worst economic disaster in American history.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)