Phrygian cap
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The Phrygian cap, also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phr
Dacian prisoner with Phrygian cap, Roman statue from the 2nd century
A Parthian (right) wearing a Phrygian cap, 203 AD
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Columbia (personification)
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Columbia, also known as Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia, is a female national personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the Americas and to the New World. The assoc
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…came to be identified as a symbol of republican government. A number of national personifications, including France's Marianne and the United States' Columbia are commonly depicted wearing the Phrygian cap. Protagonists of the Belgian comic series The Smurfs wear white Phrygian caps…
Paul Stahr's personified Columbia in an American flag gown and Phrygian cap, from a World War I patriotic poster (c. 1917)
Personification of the Americas in Meissen porcelain, c. 1760, from a set of the Four Continents
Columbia and an early rendition of Uncle Sam in an 1869 Thomas Nast cartoon having Thanksgiving dinner with a diverse group of immigrants
John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress depicts Columbia as the Spirit of the Frontier, carrying telegraph lines across the Western frontier to fulfill manifest destiny.