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TITLE:  Join or Die

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in Newspaper [Newspaper & Current Periodical RR]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-5315 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-9701 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Benjamin Franklin's warning to the British colonies in America "join or die" exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives, shows a segmented snake, "S.C., N.C., V., M., R., N.J., N.Y., [and] N.E."

MEDIUM:  1 print : woodcut.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1754 May 9]

CREATOR:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

NOTES:

Illus. in: The Pennsylvania gazette, 1754 May 9.

Published in: The ungentlemanly art ; a history of American political cartoons / Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan. New York : Macmillan, [1968], p. 52 (II-3).

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, p. 51.

SUBJECTS:

Snakes--1750-1760.
United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763.

FORMAT:

Political cartoons 1750-1760.
Woodcuts 1750-1760.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g05315 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05315
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a12149 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12149

CONTROL #:  2002695523

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