[Illustrations from Horatio Alger books: Strong and Steady" - cover showing farm boy with rifle and dog]" – Antique Print
![[Illustrations from Horatio Alger books: Strong and Steady" - cover showing farm boy with rifle and dog]", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/df/dfa7c671fcad-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Illustrations from Horatio Alger books: Strong and Steady" - cover showing farm boy with rifle and dog]". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A farm boy with a rifle and a dog anchors this cover, which was made for the Horatio Alger book *Strong and Steady* and marks it as an illustration for a juvenile novel rather than a scene of rural life. Alger, a former minister, wrote dozens of rags-to-riches stories for boys beginning in the 1860s, and publishers issued them in decorative cloth bindings meant to catch a young reader's eye in bookstores. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the style fits the late nineteenth century, when such covers were widely produced. The image promotes the theme that defined Alger's work: hard work and self-reliance.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children's Lit.; BI--WORKS; Rare Bk. Div.; Children--Misc.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,065 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131840 |
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