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Title: Join or Die Creator(s): Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Date Created/Published: [1754 May 9] Medium: 1 print : woodcut. Summary: Benjamin Franklin's warning to the British colonies in America "join or die" exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives, shows a segmented snake, "S.C., N.C., V., M., R., N.J., N.Y., [and] N.E." Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-5315 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-9701 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: Illus. in Newspaper [Newspaper & Current Periodical RR] Repository: Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Illus. in: The Pennsylvania gazette, 1754 May 9. Published in: The ungentlemanly art ; a history of American political cartoons / Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan. New York : Macmillan, [1968], p. 52 (II-3). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, p. 51. Subjects: Snakes--1750-1760. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Format: Political cartoons--1750-1760. Woodcuts--1750-1760. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695523

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