Allegorical figure of Progress over westward settlers and railroads – Historic Print
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Description
A window into the past: Allegorical figure of Progress over westward settlers and railroads, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Allegorical figure of Progress over westward settlers and railroads
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The painting that sits at the center of this board is an allegorical image, not a straight record of a place. A winged female figure, often identified with Progress, floats above a line of wagons, miners and surveyors while a railroad cuts through the landscape below. Artists of the late nineteenth century used this kind of symbolic scene to present westward expansion as a national mission, with rail lines and farms standing for civilization replacing wilderness. Viewers today often read the same composition as a record of what that expansion cost the people already living on the land.
| Original scan | 4,796 × 3,572 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 09855u american progress |
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