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Show 'Spirit of 7G This famous painting, in which the artist caught the spirit of the patriots who "fifed and drummed it," was sketched and later painted paint-ed by Archibald M. Willard. The artist, who lived through four of America's wars (1836-1918), was the creator of "Puck" comics after aft-er the Civil war. He originally made a humorous sketch for the opening of the Centennial exposition exposi-tion at Philadelphia in 1876. A serious attempt to portray early American patriotism followed fol-lowed the cartoon, and the original origi-nal now hangs in Abbott Hall library, li-brary, in Marblehead, Mass. |