Puck cartoon from 1893 satirising the boastful claims made by the upper classes of America (left) and the nobility of Europe (right) as to from whom they were descended. Top right shows a "Viking" amongst the boasts of Europeans.
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Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.
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America's Proud Pour Hundred and Europe's Haughty Nobility and the Ancestors They Are Always Boasting Of
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Date
1893
From
Puck, v. 34, no. 865
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