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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: I Want You
Additional Description: As early as the 1830s Uncle Sam became a common cartoon figure, eventually portrayed wearing red, white and blue clothing and sporting gray whiskers. Sam Wilson, however, was always clean-shaven. The most well-known drawing, of a bearded Uncle Sam wearing a star-decorated top hat and pointing an index finger at the viewer, was created by artist James Montgomery Flagg in 1916 and has been used ever since on military recruiting and other posters.
Submitted: November 15, 2013, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p260618
File Size: 0.808 Megabytes

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