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Betsey [sic] Ross – Antique Print

Betsey [sic] Ross, c. 1908 — antique lithograph
Betsey [sic] Ross, c. 1908. Antique lithograph from the Star Spangled Images 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 antique lithograph captures Betsey [sic] Ross 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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Here Betsy Ross appears as a seated seamstress, a figure the American public had come to treat as the maker of the first Stars and Stripes, though the attribution rests largely on family testimony recorded long after the fact. This color lithograph, dated around 1908, reproduces a painting by G. Liebscher and was issued under the copyright of F.A. Schneider, a publisher of patriotic imagery. Its appeal lies in how it turned an uncertain story into a tidy scene of domestic craft and national origin, the kind of image that schools, patriotic societies, and holiday displays relied on in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc. 1908
Mediumlithograph, color
NotesFrom painting by G. Liebscher. Original copyright, F.A. Schneider
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,100 × 3,104 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217035

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