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The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. - digital file from color film copy transparency | Library of Congress. Photo, Print, Drawing The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. digital file from color film copy transparency. About this Item. Image.
“Protectors of our Industries” was created by Bernhard Gillam and published by Keppler and Schw arzmann in The Puck, a satirical magazine. It was released in 1883, six years before the Johnstown Flood (Gillam 1883). The cartoon depicts the outrageous inequalities that ravaged the Gilded Age.
Term. Political Cartoonist. Definition. used drawings to show his disgust with Social Darwinism and wealth of industries tycoons on the backs of workers in this famous Puck Magazine. Location. Term. Social Darwinists. Definition.
The protectors of our industries. Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 February 7. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph. Summary: Cartoon showing Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Russell Sage, seated on bags of "millions", on large raft, and being carried by workers of various professions.
In “The Protectors of Our Industries” (1883), railroad magnates Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt, department store tycoon Marshall Field, and financier Russell Sage are buoyed from the rising tide of “hard times” on the backs of workers, whose low wages are on display.
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This 1883 editorial cartoon mocked the claims that plutocrat businessmen were the protectors of American industries by presenting Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Russell Sage as bloated parasites sitting on bags of "millions," and protective bulwarks resting on the backs industrial workers making only $6 to $11 a week.
The Cartoon: This cartoon is titled “The Protectors of Our Industries.” It is about the conflict between labor and capital in the late 1800s. It is by artist Bernhard Gillam, and it appeared in Puck on February 7, 1883. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3108
