The March of Miles Standish – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of The March of Miles Standish. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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The March of Miles Standish
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Miles Standish was the military captain of the Plymouth Colony, a small Puritan settlement on the Massachusetts coast, and this picture takes his soldierly role as its subject. He arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 and helped defend the colony, which had few fighting men and faced uncertain relations with nearby Native nations. His reputation grew well beyond his lifetime largely through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem, *The Courtship of Miles Standish*, which turned him into a figure of New England legend. Pictures like this one show how nineteenth-century Americans reimagined the Pilgrims as founding heroes, often emphasizing courage and discipline over the harder realities of colonial life.
| Original scan | 2,433 × 1,547 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8 |
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