Photo of Puck,Great Past and Pitiful Present,1885,Bernhard Gillam,Lincoln,Logan

Title: A great past and a pitiful present / Gillam.
Creator(s): Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 October 28.
Summary: Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, and John Logan lifting Uncle Sam above a swamp filled with several faces of corruption labeled 'Blainism, Robesonism, Mahone Repudiation, Land Grab, Whiskey Ring, Rotten Ships, Pension Swindle, Fraud 1876, Star Routers, Salary Grab, Army Ring, [and] Sectional Issue' with Reid gesturing toward a statue in the upper left that shows General Robert E. Lee surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant and Admiral David G. Farragut at the base of a statue showing Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and a slave freed from bondage.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: Uncle Sam 'It's no use lifting me up to look at your monumental record, gentlemen; what can you give me to stand on now!'
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 451, (1885 October 28), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Farragut, David Glasgow,--1801-1870.
Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885.
Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870.
Reid, Whitelaw,--1837-1912.
Hoar, George Frisbie,--1826-1904.
Sherman, John,--1823-1900.
Logan, John Alexander,--1826-1886.
Mahone, William,--1826-1895.
Robeson, George M.--(George Maxwell),--1829-1897.
Blaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1880-1890.
Sectionalism (United States)--1880-1890.
Corruption--1880-1890.
Wetlands--1880-1890.
Bloody shirt--1880-1890.
Government officials--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
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