The Mayflower - as she must have appeared on her passage to this country, with a portion of the heirlooms which are really authentic you know"" – Vintage Wall Art
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Step back in time with The Mayflower - as she must have appeared on her passage to this country, with a portion of the heirlooms which are really authentic you know"", a historic print rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Mayflower - as she must have appeared on her passage to this country, with a portion of the heirlooms which are really authentic you know""
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Rather than showing the ship itself, this cartoon jokes about the Mayflower's supposed relics. Its caption imagines the vessel on her passage to America, loaded with heirlooms the speaker insists are genuine. It ran on the title page of *Life*, the humor weekly, in October 1883, and it pokes fun at collectors and families who prized objects tied to the Pilgrims. Interest in Plymouth ancestry grew through the nineteenth century, and the Thanksgiving connection fits, since the 1621 harvest feast became the holiday's origin story in popular memory.
| Created / published | 1883 Oct. 11. |
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| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | Title page of Life, Oct. 11, 1883. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, US--Oct. 1883; Collectors & collecting; Shelf. |
| Original scan | 1,146 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132023 |
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