The spirit of 61. God, our country and liberty!! – Vintage Print
(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 antique lithograph of The spirit of 61. God, our country and liberty!! brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The spirit of 61. God, our country and liberty!!
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Its motto, "God, our country and liberty!!", is the clearest clue to what this Currier & Ives lithograph set out to say. The firm issued it in New York in 1861, the first year of the Civil War, when northern printmakers produced many inexpensive images to rally support for the Union. The Library of Congress's copy was deposited for copyright on May 21, 1861, which shows how quickly the publisher answered the public mood after Fort Sumter. Prints like this reached middle-class parlors, where women often took part in home front work such as sewing and fundraising, which is why the image belongs among scenes of women and family life.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 45 x 31 cm. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on May 21, 1861, and was received in the Department of State on November 15 the same year. DLC Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6054 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-16. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221136 |
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