New England town meeting shows U.S. deomocracy at work – Antique Print
![New England town meeting shows U.S. deomocracy at work, [between 1940 and 1945?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/adf1b52d7afc-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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New England town meeting shows U.S. deomocracy at work comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New England town meeting shows U.S. deomocracy at work
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Pelham, a small town in western Massachusetts, is the setting here, and the picture shows a town meeting from the early 1940s, though the date is only tentatively recorded. Such meetings trace back to the earliest New England settlements, when residents gathered in person to vote on roads, schools, taxes and local officers. The title presents the scene as evidence of American democracy at work, a theme that carried particular weight during the Second World War, when self-government was often set against the authoritarian regimes abroad.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1945?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No. 17343-PBS. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Pelham; Town meetings--1940-1945; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,238 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156268 |
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