Uncle Sam standing on Bank pedestal with money bag – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Uncle Sam standing on Bank pedestal with money bag, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Uncle Sam standing on Bank pedestal with money bag
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Uncle Sam stands on a bank pedestal with a money bag, a figure that turns the national personification into a comment on finance. Cartoons and posters of this kind were a staple of American political commentary from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when Uncle Sam was used to represent the government, the public, or the country's economic health. Pairing him with a bank and a bag of coins suggests a debate over money, credit, or the nation's fiscal policy, themes that ran through many popular illustrations of the era. Patriotic imagery like this often carried a sharper message than its flag-waving surface suggested.
| Original scan | 583 × 1,031 px |
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| Reference | Patriotic (20) |
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