July 4th Airship Postcard With Uncle Sam and Children – Vintage Print
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July 4th Airship Postcard With Uncle Sam and Children comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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July 4th Airship Postcard With Uncle Sam and Children
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This postcard sets Uncle Sam and a group of children beneath an airship, pairing a familiar national figure with a new machine of the period. Illustrated postcards were hugely popular in the United States in the early 1900s, and the Fourth of July was a favorite holiday theme for printers and senders alike. Uncle Sam had long served as a personification of the nation, while airships were still a striking novelty, so their appearance on the card signaled the optimism about technology common at the time. The combination is worth noticing because it links an older sense of national identity with the modern era.
| Original scan | 1,612 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Patriotic (107) |
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