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TITLE:  Picturesque America

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in NC1428.L53 [General Collections]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-56000 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions..." (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html).

SUMMARY:  Satirical view of city avenue crammed with commercial advertisement billboards and electrical signs; ads. lampoon many aspects of American life; incl. caricature of "Fighting Bob" La Follette in oratorical pose - the ad states, "do you love this old man? - he would rather advertise than be president".

MEDIUM:  1 print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1909.

NOTES:

Repro. of line drawing by Harry Grant Dart.

Illus. in: Life/Men, Women, and Mirth, 1909.

Reference copy may be in LOT 4397A.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: City & town life; Advertising; Artists, Publ. Index; Cartoons, US; Billboards; Shelf.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b03878 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b03878

CONTROL #:  2004679728


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