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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8175604, member: 20201&quot;]<b><font size="6">1954 Uncle Sam Memorial-Birthplace</font></b></p><p><b><font size="6">Medallic Art Co Bronze Medal</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>While this silver dollar size, bronze medal is about Samuel Wilson and shows a memorial statue in Arlington Massachuscetts I am certainly more excited to have a vintage medal with a good portrait of Uncle Sam here.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428681[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1428685[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The earliest known personification of the United States was as a woman named Columbia, who first appeared in 1738 (pre-USA) and sometimes was associated with another female personification, Lady Liberty.</p><p>With the American Revolutionary War came Brother Jonathan, a male personification, and Uncle Sam finally appeared after the War of 1812. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428680[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Columbia appeared with either Brother Jonathan or Uncle Sam, but her use declined as a national personification in favor of Liberty, and she was effectively abandoned once she became the mascot of Columbia Pictures in the 1920s.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428679[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The precise origin of the Uncle Sam character is unclear, but a popular legend is that the name &quot;Uncle Sam&quot; was derived from Samuel Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy, New York who supplied rations for American soldiers during the War of 1812.</p><p>There was a requirement at the time for contractors to stamp their name and where the rations came from onto the food they were sending.</p><p>Wilson&#039;s packages were labeled &quot;E.A – US.&quot;</p><p>When someone asked what that stood for, a co-worker jokingly said, &quot;Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam,&quot; referring to Wilson, though the &quot;US&quot; actually stood for United States. Doubts have been raised as to the authenticity of this story, as the claim did not appear in print until 1842.</p><p>Here is a Song Book I own in pretty good shape printed in 1897.</p><p>I see that among the songs is The Star Spangled Banner with three verses!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428677[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Uncle Sam did not get a standard appearance, even with the effective abandonment of Brother Jonathan near the end of the American Civil War, until the well-known &quot;recruitment&quot; image of Uncle Sam was first created by James Montgomery Flagg during World War I.</p><p>The image was inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in a similar pose. It is this image more than any other that has influenced the modern appearance of Uncle Sam: an elderly white man with white hair and a goatee, wearing a white top hat with white stars on a blue band, a blue tail coat, and red-and-white-striped trousers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428678[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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