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Federal pillars,1778,DE,PA,NJ,GA,MA,VA,NC,NY,RI,NH

Title: The federal pillars
Date Created/Published: 1788.
Summary: A series of prints published over several months showing columns, each labeled after a state, being placed upright by a hand extending from a cloud. The first print, published January 16, 1788, labeled 'United they stand - divided fall' shows the Massachusetts column being added to those of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut. In the June 11th 1788 issue, the print, labeled 'Redeunt Saturnia Regna' shows the Maryland and South Carolina columns in place and the Virginia column being put into position, with the New Hampshire column reclining on the right. On August 2nd 1788 the final print appeared, the New Hampshire column has been placed ahead of the Virginia column, the New York column is in place, and the hand is placing the North Carolina column into position; to the right is a crumbling Rhode Island column next to the notation, 'The foundation good - it may yet be SAVED.' The Massachusetts Centinel, 1788 January 16, June 11, and August 2. The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 894a-c.
Subjects:
Columns--1780-1790.
Newspapers--Massachusetts--Boston--1780-1790.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Periodical illustrations--1780-1790.
Woodcuts--1780-1790
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