Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and published by Joseph A. Arnold ; Thomas Moore's Lithography, Boston. – Antique Print
![Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and published by Joseph A. Arnold ; Thomas Moore's Lithography, Boston., [Boston : Joseph A. Arnold], c1839. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3d/3d3bd2179462-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and published by Joseph A. Arnold ; Thomas Moore's Lithography, Boston.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Independence declared 1776. The Union must be preserved / designed and published by Joseph A. Arnold ; Thomas Moore's Lithography, Boston.
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Its title pairs the Declaration of Independence with "The Union must be preserved," a phrase Andrew Jackson had made famous in an 1830 toast. Joseph A. Arnold designed and published the sheet, and Thomas Moore's lithography firm in Boston printed it. Its 1839 copyright entry places it in the years after the nullification crisis, when many Americans drew on the Revolution to argue that national unity was worth defending. Political prints like this one were a common way to spread such arguments to a broad public.
| Created / published | [Boston : Joseph A. Arnold], c1839. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with letterpress text ; image 60.2 x 45.4 cm. |
| Genre | 1991 |
| Notes | Title from item. Entered ... 1839 by Joseph A. Arnold ... Massachusetts." Published in: American political prints |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112735 |
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