Historic Photo Print - Chicago - The political Siamese twins – Historic Photograph Print
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A window into the past: Historic Photo Print - Chicago - The political Siamese twins, preserved in this historic print. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Historic Photo Print - Chicago - The political Siamese twins
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Joined at the hip and pulling in opposite directions, the "political Siamese twins" of the title is a metaphor for two rivals bound together by a shared stake, a figure that Chicago's press and cartoonists reached for often during the city's hard-fought campaigns. Conjoined twins were a familiar sideshow attraction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so the comparison would have been instantly recognizable to readers of the day. The record does not name the figures involved, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of the city's partisan habits and the public's appetite for sharp, humorous commentary on them.
| Subjects | Historic Print Archive |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111450 |
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