Norman Rockwell, Ben Franklin's Sesquicentennial, Saturday Evening Post cover, May 29, 1926.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this 1926 Saturday Evening Post cover presents Benjamin Franklin as both founding father and symbolic patron of the magazine itself. Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1728, the predecessor to The Saturday Evening Post, and for generations the magazine's masthead proudly acknowledged him as its founder.
Presented against the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle's olive branch, and the motto E Pluribus Unum ("Out of Many, One") underscore themes of unity and nationhood central to the sesquicentennial celebration. By combining patriotic symbolism with a portrait of Franklin, Rockwell linked the nation's Revolutionary origins to the enduring role of illustrated magazines in shaping American identity and historical memory.
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