J.C. can save America! – Vintage 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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This campaign poster leads with its slogan, "J.C. can save America!", which uses Jimmy Carter's initials in place of his name, a style that suited the informal, outsider image he built during his 1976 presidential run. Carter, a former governor of Georgia, won the Democratic nomination that year and went on to defeat incumbent Gerald Ford in November, in an election held amid lingering public distrust after Watergate. The American flag in the subject headings reflects the bicentennial-era patriotism that ran through many campaign designs of the period. The record notes it as one of a series of posters by the same designers, a common practice when campaigns and supporters wanted a consistent look across many printed materials.
| Created / published | c1976. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) |
| Notes | Another Cenedella/Mehlman Poster." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software |
| Subjects | Carter, Jimmy,--1924- Presidential elections. Flags--American. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,122 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161784 |
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