In God is our trust – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures In God is our trust in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In God is our trust
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The title comes from the last line of Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner," where Key ends with "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'" Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive color lithographs to a broad public, issued this hand-colored print around 1874, when the phrase was already linked to American patriotism. The motto later appeared on U.S. coins from 1864 and became the national motto in 1956. The archaic wording of the title, with "is" in place of "we," is worth noticing next to that later formula.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3325 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,247 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174761 |
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