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America was personified as a female figure with a feathered head dress in European court culture, Philips Galle, Rijksmuseum. [1] Early European personifications of America, meaning the Americas, typically come from sets of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. These were all that were then known in Europe.
"Indian Princess and Roman Goddess: The First Female Symbols of America", Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 100: 50–51, JSTOR or PDF Le Corbeiller, Clare (1961), "Miss America and Her Sisters: Personifications of the Four Parts of the World", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , vol. 19, pp. 210–223, PDF Archived 2019-08 ...
The earliest known personification of the United States was as a woman named Columbia, who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with another female personification, Lady Liberty. With the American Revolutionary War of 1775 came Brother Jonathan , a male personification.
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction ... The First Female Symbols of America", Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 100: 50 ...
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"Columbia", who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with liberty, is the personification of the American nation, while Uncle Sam is a personification of the government; they are some times shown working together or disputing with one another over political issues, especially in the political cartoons of Puck.
18-year-old Ludlow Hall of Company I, 61st New York Infantry, a regiment of volunteers serving in the U.S. Army. Billy Yank or Billy Yankee is the personification of the United States soldier (volunteer or Regular) during the American Civil War. [1]