All hail to the flag of freedom / Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lith., N.Y. – 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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All hail to the flag of freedom / Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lith., N.Y. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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All hail to the flag of freedom / Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lith., N.Y.
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This is the cover of sheet music for the song "All Hail to the Flag of Freedom," a color lithograph made by Ferd. Mayer & Co. of New York and published in Brooklyn by Skaats & Knaebel around 1861, the first year of the Civil War. Publishers sold patriotic songs like this one in large numbers during the war, and their covers often used bold flag imagery and figures of Union soldiers to draw buyers. Because the cover was meant to catch the eye in a shop window or on a parlor piano, it shows how the war was marketed to ordinary families at home.
| Created / published | Brooklyn : Published by Skaats & Knaebel, c1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Sheet music covers 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by William W. Skaats. |
| Subjects | Flags--American--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs & music. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,033 × 1,135 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214121 |
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