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Paul Bunyan"" – Historic Print

Paul Bunyan"" — antique lithograph
Paul Bunyan"". Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 antique lithograph of Paul Bunyan"" brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Paul Bunyan""

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Paul Bunyan, the towering lumberjack of American tall tales, is the subject here, and the record's tags for barges and railroads point to the river and rail routes that carried timber out of the forests. The legend grew out of logging camps in the Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest and gained wide circulation through advertising writer William B. Laughead's 1914 booklet for a lumber company. The record also lists African Americans among its subjects, a reminder that the timber trade behind these stories relied on many workers the legend seldom names. The lithograph dates to about 1953.

Medium1 print : lithograph.
Genreold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: AP; African Americans; Barges; Railroads; Folklore; Shelf."
Notesc1953.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan972 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121476

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