I Am An American Day. 1951. Lithograph poster. 28x53½ cm, 11x21 inches.
"I Am an American Day" became a holiday at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Congress, under President Truman, changed the name to Citizenship Day in 1952, and moved the date to September 17th. Vincent R. Impellitteri was the 101st Mayor of New York City, from 1950 to 1953.
Amelia Jones was an American cartoonist who sometimes signed her work "Oppy." She is best known for taking over the "The Subway Sun" comic strip posters from artist Fred Cooper - a series promoting good manners and an anti-littering campaign on the Subway. Oppy claimed credit for introducing the word "litterbug," an adaptation of the term "jitterbug."Condition B+: restoration in margins; repaired tears at edges, some into image; slight overpainting along creases in image; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image.
