Uncle Sam handing a firecracker to a woman, 4th of July – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Uncle Sam handing a firecracker to a woman, 4th of July, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Uncle Sam handing a firecracker to a woman, 4th of July
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Here Uncle Sam, the lanky, goateed national personification, hands a lit firecracker to a woman, a pairing that turns the Fourth of July into a small comic scene of holiday mischief. Images like this were common in American print culture from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when illustrators used Uncle Sam to stand for the nation and its celebrations. The gesture is worth noticing: the firecracker is both a patriotic salute and a hazard, a reminder that Independence Day festivities were often as noisy and unruly as they were solemn.
| Original scan | 514 × 813 px |
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| Reference | Patriotic (94) |
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