By industry we thrive. Progress" our motto!" – Antique Wall Art
![By industry we thrive. Progress" our motto!", [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4ae4fb9ae724-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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A window into the past: By industry we thrive. Progress" our motto!", preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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By industry we thrive. Progress" our motto!"
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The title sets the tone: a motto declaring that "by industry we thrive" and that progress is the watchword of the day. The record gives no date, but its copyright deposit notation shows the print was submitted for registration, a routine step for commercial prints of its era. The shelflist card links it to the name Kimmel & Voight, though the record flags that attribution as unverified. Prints like this were common in the decades after the Civil War, when manufacturers and civic boosters used such imagery to present industrial growth as a national virtue.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | D6850 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kimmel & Voight. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,286 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113453 |
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