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[McCarthy supporters as Spirit of '76"]" – Antique Print

[McCarthy supporters as Spirit of '76"]", [between 1968 and 1976] — historic photograph
[McCarthy supporters as Spirit of '76"]", [between 1968 and 1976]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Here the supporters of Eugene J. McCarthy take the place of the fife player, the drummer, and the battered veteran from Archibald Willard's 1876 painting *The Spirit of '76*. McCarthy, the Minnesota senator who challenged President Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic nomination in 1968, drew many young volunteers to his antiwar campaign, and the poster casts them as patriots marching for their cause. Willard's centennial painting had become a staple of Fourth of July imagery, so the satire works only if viewers recognize the original at a glance.

Created / published[between 1968 and 1976]
Medium1 print (poster)
GenrePaintings Reproductions.Photographs.Posters American.Satires.Prints.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. jj / 860404.
SubjectsMcCarthy, Eugene J.,--1916- Willard, Archibald M.,--1836-1918. Spirit of '76. Presidential elections.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,826 × 4,720 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220086

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