Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 18,1909, depicting a Student Reciting Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death" Speech
date: label: date made
content: 1909-09-18
name: label: maker
content: Saturday Evening Post
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content: Curtis Publishing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This color illustration graced the front cover of The Saturday Evening Post on September 18, 1909. It depicts a young boy standing in front of a classroom and enthusiastically reciting Patrick Henry’s famous “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech of 1775. A bemused teacher is sitting behind him while an apple sits on her desk. Patriotic plays and founder rhetoric were common classroom themes during this period of Americanization in the classroom. It was also a period of promotion of free speech rights by unions on public city streets.
label: Description
content: German-American Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) is considered to be one of the preeminent illustrators of the early 20th Century. He attended the Chicago Art Institute. J. C. Leyendecker completed 322 illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post and was a mentor to Norman Rockwell. He was a frequent contributor to Collier’s and The American Weekly, among other periodicals. He also created famous advertising campaigns, such as the Arrow Collar Man.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: referenced
content: Americanization
label: referenced
content: teacher appreciation
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.90
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3049
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3049.90
objectType: label: Object Name
content: magazine cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 34.925 cm x 26.67 cm