American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    26 days ago

    Nice but the giant lady needs a repeating rifle and some smallpox blankets.

    It’s not even wrong to like railroads, school books, electricity, farming and America, all the centuries of backbreaking work by ordinary unremarkable people that went into building the paradise land that a lot of Americans got to inhabit until Reagan ruined it for the rest of us. But yes, Mr. Gast is definitely missing a whole other side of the coin.