True Americans / lith. by Louis E. Neuman & Co., N.Y. – Antique Print
![True Americans / lith. by Louis E. Neuman & Co., N.Y., [ca. 1885] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8c/8c28ea355f54-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of True Americans / lith. by Louis E. Neuman & Co., N.Y.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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True Americans / lith. by Louis E. Neuman & Co., N.Y.
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The title "True Americans" sits on a tobacco label, so the picture was meant to sell a product by invoking Native American identity. It is a chromolithograph, a multicolor printing process that let firms such as Louis E. Neuman & Co. of New York produce bright, inexpensive packaging in the 1880s. Labels like this drew on a popular taste for romanticized Indian imagery, and they show how manufacturers used Native figures to give their goods an air of American authenticity. Looking at it now, the gap between the image and the lives of the people it depicts is worth noticing.
| Created / published | [ca. 1885] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Labels 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1880-1890. Tobacco products--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,449 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216125 |
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