Hanging up stocking: disputes among the allies – Historic Print
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Hanging up stocking: disputes among the allies comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hanging up stocking: disputes among the allies
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The title's pairing of a hanging stocking with "disputes among the allies" suggests a holiday-season joke in which a familiar Christmas ritual stands in for a quarrel between coalition partners. Cartoons like this were common when alliances were under strain, since the form let an artist mock official rivalries through a domestic scene everyone recognized. Allied governments often clashed over strategy, supplies and postwar aims, and a gift-giving image was an easy way to make those tensions seem both petty and serious. The record places it under library subjects, so viewers should look closely at the setting and figures for details that show which nations or leaders the artist had in mind.
| Original scan | 5,723 × 7,266 px · prints to 19 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15543_Hangingupstockingdisputeamonga |
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