Lantern Slide, "Wanted: Sixty Thousand Boys" Cartoon, 1890-1910

Frank Beard (1842-1905), an illustrator, caricaturist, and cartoonist, began his career by sketching scenes of military life for popular publications--such as Harper's Weekly--during the Civil War. His later works promoted Christianity, warned against secularism, and targeted the social ills of the Gilded Age. Beard provided illustrations for this poem that attacked alcohol consumption and voters' complacency to remedy the situation.