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1 print : chromolithograph. | 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.
Anti-corporate cartoons, ca. 1900. "The protectors of our industries," New York, 1883. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) These cartoons illustrate the growing hostility toward the practices of the big businesses that fueled the industrial development of the United States.
“Protectors of our Industries” was created by Bernhard Gillam and published by Keppler and Schwarzmann 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.
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 Protectors of Our Industries | NEH-Edsitement. 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. Printed in Puck Magazine, February 7, 1883. Library of Congress.
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.
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.
