Heroes? past and present – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Heroes? past and present comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A question mark in the title and a motion picture camera set this poster apart from other war images of its time. Uncle Sam, the national personification of the United States, is shown beside the camera, which asks viewers to consider who the "heroes" of the past were compared with those of the present. The poster dates to about 1914, when the European war had begun but the United States had not yet entered it. Its copyright line credits the New Electro Corporation of New York, and its subject points to how newly important film had become for showing war to the public.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 57 x 82 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Copyright 1914 by New Electro Corporation, 1476 Broadway, New York. |
| Subjects | Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Motion picture cameras--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,463 × 3,650 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1419_Heroes_past_and_present_1914 |
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