I feed you all! PGA - American Oleograph--I feed ... (C size)... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:I feed you all! CALL NUMBER:PGA - American Oleograph--I feed ... (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-pga-00025 (digital file from original print) SUMMARY:No doubt inspired by the Granger movement, the artist asserts the importance of the farmer in American society. The title is a variation on the movement''s motto, "I Pay for All." The Grange was an organization composed mostly of midwestern farmers, who united to combat the monopolistic practices of the railroads and grain elevators. The central vignette shows a farmer with a plough and two horses. In the distance is a large house. The vignette appears within a framework of twigs and oak branches, with stalks of corn and sheafs of wheat in the corners. Above the scene is an eagle and an arrangement of flags, with the inscription "1776. 1876." Several smaller scenes surround the central vignette. Clockwise from the upper left corner are: a lawyer ("I Plead for All"); a seated President Ulysses S. Grant ("I Rule for All"); an officer leading a charge ("I Fight for All"); a clergyman at his pulpit ("I Preach for All"); a ship owner watching his vessel through a window ("I Sail for All"); a shopkeeper in a general store ("I Buy & Sell for All"); a doctor with a scale and drugs ("I Physic You All"); a broker at his window ("I Fleece You All"); a trader (I Bull & Bear for All"); and a railroad owner watching his locomotive ("I Carry for All"). MEDIUM:1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in colors ; 42 x 55.7 cm (image) CREATED/PUBLISHED:[Milwaukee, Wisc.] : Lith by American Oleograph Co., Milwaukee, c1875. CREATOR: American Oleograph Co., lithographer. NOTES: Title from item. "Entered ... 1875 by American Oleograph Co. ... Washington, D.C." Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1875-1. TOPICS: Farmers and farming. FORMAT: Lithographs 1870-1880. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original print) pga 00025 CONTROL #:2003690771
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