🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**

_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._

Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.

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