A Better War: Post-Civil War, Re-remembering the American Revolution and the Founding of the Republic
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Keystone View Company, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., ca. 1926.
Keystone View Company, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., ca. 1926.
Speaking directly to the “stereo-viewer” (i.e., “you”), the text defines what is requisite for patriotism and good citizenship; a knowledge of the history of the founding of America and a desire to celebrate it. Notably, this stereograph does not call the building the State House or refer to its original municipal role. That part of the building’s history is subsumed into its reinvention as an icon of Americanism. The stereograph invites the viewer, probably assumed to be a schoolchild, to retain this common memory, and promises (and expects) that those who do will “love our country a little more.”
