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Cartoon of Founders amazed by giant modern America striding past Capitol – Antique Wall Art

Cartoon of Founders amazed by giant modern America striding past Capitol — historic image
Cartoon of Founders amazed by giant modern America striding past Capitol. Historic image from the U.S. Capitol collection.

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Cartoon of Founders amazed by giant modern America striding past Capitol. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cartoon of Founders amazed by giant modern America striding past Capitol

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Here the Capitol serves as a backdrop for a comic reversal: the Founders, dressed in the costume of the 1700s, stare in astonishment as a towering figure representing modern America strides past the building. Cartoons like this were a common way to joke about how far the country had grown beyond the small republic its founders designed. The Capitol, whose dome was finished in the 1860s, makes a fitting stand-in for the government's changing scale. Look closely at the figures' expressions and the sheer size of the modern giant relative to the building.

Original scan3,016 × 3,600 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference1915 2a13864u

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