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Digital Image: 1885 Frank Beard Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam Astride the Nicaragua Canal
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Title
The American Colossus of Rhodes.
1885 (undated) 12.75 x 8.25 in (32.385 x 20.955 cm)
1885 (undated) 12.75 x 8.25 in (32.385 x 20.955 cm)
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Cartographer
Frank Beard (February 6, 1842 - September 28, 1905) was an American artist, illustrator and draughtsman. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he began drawing at an early age and was submitting material for publication as young as 12. In the Civil War, Leslie's and Harper's commissioned the 18 -year-old Beard to accompany the Army of the Potomac as a correspondent. After the war he originated the 'chalk talk' - a popular lecture accompanied with rapid illustration - primarily in aid of his methodist wife's temperance lectures. He was for three years the chair for aesthetics and painting at Syracuse University; at the end of this tenure, he became one of the editors for The Judge magazine. Following the 1884 election of Grover Cleveland, he shifted from political humor to education, Sunday school work, and Chautaquas. Beginning in about 1885 he illustrated The Ram's Horn, a Chicago religious weekly; by 1890 he was entirely engaged with work for that magazine. More by this mapmaker...
Source
The Judge, Vol. 7 No. 169, Jan. 10, 1885.
Judge (1881 - 1947) was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States. The first issue was first printed on October 29, 1881 and was only sixteen pages long. Judge was launched by James Albert Wales, Frank Tousey, and George H. Jessop, who had previously worked for its rival magazine Puck. In the mid-1880s, William J. Arkell purchased the magazine, which was having difficulty competing with Puck. Arkell, taking advantage of his considerable wealth, persuaded cartoonists Eugene Zimmermann and Bernhard Gillam to leave Puck and join the staff at Judge. As Arkell was a supporter of the Republican Party, Judge soon became a platform for criticizing the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland, which was blamed for the Panic of 1893, among other issues. With support from the Republican Party, Judge saw a rise in popularity during the 1880s and 90s, surpassing Puck in both content and circulation. Judge also widely supported the candidacy of William McKinley, largely through the work of cartoonists Victor Gillam and Grant E. Hamilton. Judge reached its peak circulation of around 100,000 by 1912. One of its former editors, Harold Ross, used his experience at the magazine to launch his own publication, The New Yorker in 1925, which quickly began to compete with Judge. Due to the success of The New Yorker and the Great Depression, Judge became a monthly is 1932 and ceased circulation in 1947.