American Patriot: Anti-immigration propaganda
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- Newspaper 1167
- Advertising 487
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- paper 1318
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- letterpress printing 95
- printing 424
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- United States 696
- New York 361
- Boston
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The American Patriot was a short lived nationalist newspaper printed out of Boston, Massachusets from 1852-1857. The newspaper is an example of early letterpress and wood block printing for newspapers in the United States.
This example, printed in 1852, is a full page spread detailing nationalist viewpoints on limiting imigration and immigrant rights in the United States. The illustration in the section headding shows a protest against Catholic immigration as well as a basilisk wearing the popes crown choked by a hand from the sky. In the background, the basilica of St. Peter in Rome is visible.
The charged language around “pauper labor” and “foreign spies” as well as anti catholic imagery are purposeful design decisions when creatign this piece of propoganda design. Newspapers like The American Patriot commonly employed charged language and imagery to sway public opinion on political policy.
