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How Uncle Same Came to Be |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Sandy Northrop |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,410 Words, 8,703 Characters |
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"The United States without Uncle Sam would seem like Christmas without Santa Claus," historian Alton Ketchum wrote in 1959. Although Americans are a more cynical, less patriotic lot today, Uncle Sam is still called into action by political cartoonists both in the United States and abroad. If you want a quick, clear way to visualize this country: Uncle Sam is the United States. But where did Sam get his start?
EARLY REPRESENTATIONS
The earliest symbols for America depicted the new colonialists as Indians, sometimes male, often female, both clothed and unclothed, tempestuous or timid. Pocahontas was one of many Indian princesses represented in early engravings, standing up to a bewigged, British adversary.
In 1754, Benjamin Franklin introduced a new symbol: the rattlesnake. Frankli...
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...e straighter, rolling up his sleeves and taking command once again.
Today, Uncle Sam still stands guard over the drawing boards of cartoonists around the world. For some he is an object of scorn, for others he is a symbol of hope. Whatever a cartoonist's point of view, what cartoonist Rollin Kirby said in 1918 still holds true: "It would be difficult to manage a daily cartoon without him."
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