Fourth of July Greetings with Uncle Sam and eagle – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Fourth of July Greetings with Uncle Sam and eagle in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fourth of July Greetings with Uncle Sam and eagle
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Uncle Sam, the lanky, goateed figure in striped trousers and star-spangled hat, sits at the center of this holiday card, with a large eagle beside him to lend the scene its national symbolism. Greeting cards like this one were a popular way to mark Independence Day in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when color lithography made inexpensive, bright designs easy to mass-produce. Uncle Sam had by then become a familiar personification of the federal government, and pairing him with the bald eagle, a symbol adopted for the national seal in 1782, tied the card's sentiment to a shared sense of patriotic identity. Notice how the figures are drawn to be read at a glance, a design choice that suited cards sent quickly through the mail.
| Original scan | 527 × 823 px |
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| Reference | Patriotic (82) |
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