The Mayflower Compact 1620 / J.L.G. Ferris. – Historic Reproduction
(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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The Mayflower Compact 1620 / J.L.G. Ferris.
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The scene here is the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the agreement drafted aboard the ship in 1620 while it lay at anchor off Cape Cod, before the Pilgrims went ashore at Plymouth. This color halftone reproduces an oil painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, who specialized in historical scenes of American events. It was issued in the *Pageant of a Nation* series, published in Cleveland around 1932, when such prints were popular in schools and homes. The record also names Myles Standish among the subjects, tying the image to one of the colony's best-known military figures.
| Created / published | c1932 July 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1930-1940.Portraits 1930-1940Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | K17394 U.S. Copyright Office Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 5. Copyright by The Fountain Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio and Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. |
| Subjects | Standish, Myles,--1584?-1656. Mayflower (Ship). Mayflower Compact--(1620). Document signings--1620. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,706 × 3,801 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220677 |
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