Ringing out liberty, July 8, 1776, Philadelphia, home city of the Pennsylvania Railroad – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Ringing out liberty, July 8, 1776, Philadelphia, home city of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ringing out liberty, July 8, 1776, Philadelphia, home city of the Pennsylvania Railroad
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A Pennsylvania Railroad poster ties the company to a bell ringing out liberty in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was first read aloud to the public in the yard of the State House, now Independence Hall. The illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth, a well-known painter of dramatic, saturated scenes, created the design, and the railroad used the city's founding story to promote its name and its home city. Posters like this one show how rail companies in the early 1930s drew on American history to make travel feel patriotic. The record's date and printing details come from an old caption card and have not been fully verified.
| Created / published | c1931. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | K 14523 U.S. Copyright Office Color offset by Newell Ckonvers Wyeth. Copyright not renewed 1959. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,241 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173024 |
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