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What does America Look Like?

Posted on February 24th, 2004 by Editor

What does America Look Like?

Over the years there have been many allegorical representations of “America.” This one is from a vignette book issued by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the 1870s. America is personified by a goddess with a loyal eagle perched nearby and holding an olive branch symbolic of peace; with a fasces (Roman symbol of [...]

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