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Broadside of Revolutionary War period: A Dose for the Tories – Vintage Print

Broadside of Revolutionary War period: A Dose for the Tories — historic print
Broadside of Revolutionary War period: A Dose for the Tories. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Broadside of Revolutionary War period: A Dose for the Tories, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few pictures on this board are as pointed as this 1775 broadside, whose title, *A Dose for the Tories*, takes aim at colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown. The year places it at the very start of the Revolutionary War, when the Massachusetts colonies had just clashed with British troops at Lexington and Concord and public opinion was sharply divided. Broadsides like this were printed to be posted, read aloud, and passed from hand to hand, so they carried political arguments to people who might never buy a pamphlet. Its use of a medicine metaphor shows how colonial printers relied on mockery and ridicule to pressure their neighbors.

Medium1 print.
Notes1775
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,167 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129712

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