James Montgomery Flagg
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James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I.
Flagg as Captain Kidd at the Illustrators' Ball, a masquerade ball in New York in 1917.
The grave of James Montgomery Flagg in Woodlawn Cemetery
Illustration in St. Nicholas Illustrated magazine, January 1898.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922. It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie.
USS Governor Milton by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Leslie's Civil War sketch of the Battle of Honey Springs was published August 29, 1863.
Veiled Prophet Parade, 1878, St. Louis, Missouri. Image by Edward Jump from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 1878
Mary Todd Lincoln with sons William and Tad (December 15, 1860)