Folder 1
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Call Number: RH PH P20
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"American progress" photograph
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P20
Overview
Includes a photograph of the "American progress" painting by John Gast in 1872. George Crofutt worked with Gast to create this painting to distribute as a print in his magazine, Crofutt's Western World. The painting is one of the most enduring artistic represtations of the phrase "Manifest Destiny," coined by John L. O'Sullivan in 1845.
Dates:
[after 1872]