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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Uncle Sam's Church by John Bell Bouton, Poster by Ethel Reed
Ethel Reed (1874-1912) · Uncle Sam's Church, by John Bell Bouton, 1895
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
Ethel Reed's 1895 colour poster for Uncle Sam's Church by John Bell Bouton; 45 by 36 cm.
Why it matters
Reed made book posters through 1895; this is one of them.
What to notice
The title borrows the country's own mascot, and the poster lets the words do it.
A national nickname on a bookshop wall.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Ethel Reed (1874-1912)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Uncle Sam's Church, by John Bell Bouton, 1895
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2015646903
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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