Why bless my heart Johnny, you're welcome! How's your mother? – Antique 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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This rare historic print captures Why bless my heart Johnny, you're welcome! How's your mother? in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Why bless my heart Johnny, you're welcome! How's your mother?
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Its title reads like a line from a stage comedy: a hearty "Why bless my heart, Johnny, you're welcome!" followed by a polite question about someone's mother. The record dates it to September 12, 1816, and notes a U.S. copyright registration, which points to a work issued for sale in the years after the War of 1812. Comic prints with brief dialogue like this were a popular way for early American printsellers to offer lighthearted entertainment to ordinary households. The name J.F. Ryder appears on an associated shelflist card, though that attribution is unverified.
| Created / published | c1816 Sept. 12. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | G10384 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ryder, J.F. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,117 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111747 |
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