Must liberty's light go out? – Antique 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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A window into the past: Must liberty's light go out?, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, "Must liberty's light go out?", frames this wood engraving around the Statue of Liberty's torch, a symbol that would have been familiar to any reader of the New York American in May 1917. The picture ran in that paper's editorial pages only weeks after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, a period when wartime measures and debates over free speech and dissent were pressing public questions. Windsor McCay, best known for the comic strip *Little Nemo*, drew it for the Hearst papers, where he produced editorial cartoons alongside his comic work.
| Created / published | 1917 May 3, c1917. |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons 1910-1920.Periodical illustrations 1910-1920.Wood engravings 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by Windsor McCay. Copyright by International News Service. Illus. in: New York American Editorial ... , 1917 May 3. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 997 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161834 |
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