[Babbitry abroad] – Historic Reproduction
![[Babbitry abroad], [1927] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9b/9b7b14087413-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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This rare historic drawing captures [Babbitry abroad] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Babbitry abroad]
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The title, "Babbitry abroad," points to Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel *Babbitt*, whose complacent, booster-minded businessman became shorthand for American middle-class smugness. Here the satire travels south, suggesting that the same attitudes were being carried into Latin America through trade and investment. The drawing appeared in *Our Southern Neighbor*, a 1927 publication, when U.S. relations with countries such as Mexico and Nicaragua were tense and often contested. Viewers should look at the caricature as a commentary on how Americans presented themselves abroad as much as on the people they met there.
| Created / published | [1927] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | in movies and reality |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1976:R2.147) Published in: Our southern neighbor |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,030 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225139 |
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