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Mr. Cleveland's new toy - a boat, 14 ft. long, made of aluminum and weighing 30 pounds – Historic Reproduction

Mr. Cleveland's new toy - a boat, 14 ft. long, made of aluminum and weighing 30 pounds — historic print
Mr. Cleveland's new toy - a boat, 14 ft. long, made of aluminum and weighing 30 pounds. Historic print from the Cleveland 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 rare historic print captures Mr. Cleveland's new toy - a boat, 14 ft. long, made of aluminum and weighing 30 pounds in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Mr. Cleveland's new toy - a boat, 14 ft. long, made of aluminum and weighing 30 pounds

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Lead with the joke in the title: a 14-foot aluminum boat weighing 30 pounds, described as "Mr. Cleveland's new toy." The subject is President Grover Cleveland, not the city of Cleveland that this gallery board groups it under. Aluminum was still a costly novelty metal in the 1880s, so a boat built from it would have struck contemporary viewers as a curiosity, and the print plays on that gap between a sportsman's leisure and the rarity of the material. The caption's tracings point to hunting and boats, which suggests the piece pokes fun at the president's outdoor pastimes. The card records no date or artist, so its exact year and origin remain unconfirmed.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Genreold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hunting; Pres. I.; Aluminum; Boats; Shelf."
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 653 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137654

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