Help Uncle Sam kick the habit! – Vintage Wall Art
![Help Uncle Sam kick the habit!, [between 1960 and 1970] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/15dfd35361e7-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Help Uncle Sam kick the habit! 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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The poster's title, "Help Uncle Sam kick the habit!", turns a common phrase about quitting a bad habit into a joke about the national government and taxes, which its subject tags also name. Uncle Sam, the bearded figure who has personified the federal government since the early 1800s, appeared often in American posters, and tax themes gave designers a way to make a dry civic message lighthearted. The record dates the print only to the 1960s and identifies it as a color halftone poster, a mass-produced format that made such messages cheap to print and easy to post in public places.
| Created / published | [between 1960 and 1970] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1960-1970.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Unprocessed in U.S. Doc. Coll. H11. |
| Subjects | Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1960-1970. Taxes--United States--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,432 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217809 |
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