Flag Day -- keep 'em flying – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Flag Day -- keep 'em flying, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Flag Day -- keep 'em flying
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Keep 'em flying" is the line that sets this cartoon apart from other wartime Flag Day images. Drawn in June 1942, six months after the United States entered the war, it urges readers to keep the Allied flags up on the June 14 observance. Uncle Sam and John Bull, the familiar figures for the United States and Britain, appear together as a shorthand for the partnership that guided the Allied war effort. The record suggests it was probably published in the Washington *Evening Star*, a daily that ran many editorial cartoons on the war and home-front mobilization.
| Created / published | 1942 June 14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American.Drawings. |
| Notes | Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.). (DLC/PP-1945:R2.212) mm / 860115; ljr / 020301. |
| Subjects | Flag Day--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Allied. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1940-1950. John Bull--1940-1950. Flags--Allied--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,467 × 3,616 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222928 |
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