To enjoy American opportunities become an American citizen – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: To enjoy American opportunities become an American citizen, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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To enjoy American opportunities become an American citizen
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This color lithograph, dated around 1919, carries the message "To enjoy American opportunities become an American citizen," and its record credits the Stanley Service Co. with the copyright and lists it as No. 69 in that company's series. It belongs to the Americanization drive that gathered force during and after World War I, when schools, employers, and civic groups promoted naturalization classes and encouraged immigrants to take out citizenship papers. Posters like this one were meant to make that step seem both practical and patriotic, linking the rights and openings of American life to the formal act of becoming a citizen.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Stanley Service Co. No. 69. |
| Subjects | Citizenship--American--1910-1920. Naturalization--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,750 × 2,266 px · prints to 12 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217776 |
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