A tongariferous fight with an alligator – Antique 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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This rare historic print captures A tongariferous fight with an alligator in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A tongariferous fight with an alligator
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The title's invented word, "tongariferous," is part of the comic vocabulary that gives this 1837 woodcut its flavor and signals a tall tale rather than a report of a real encounter. It appeared as an illustration in *Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, Sketches of Texas, and Rows on the Mississippi*, one of the frontier-humor almanacs published under Davy Crockett's name, which mixed boasting, exaggeration, and sporting yarns. Such pages played on readers' appetite for stories of the backwoods and the Southwest, where battles with wild animals were a stock boast. The record's subject tags also list women, alligators, and humor, though its catalog data is noted as unverified.
| Created / published | 1837 |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, Sket[ch] of Texas, and Rows on the Mississippi, 1837, v. 1, no. 3. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Alligators; Almanacs; B.I.; Humor. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,063 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145454 |
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