I Want You For U.S. Army - Stock Photo

For more than 170 years, Uncle Sam's name has been used to evoke American identity, loyalty, and patriotism. No other image has been reproduced more often to sway us towards a common cause or belief.

It is generally accepted that the character Uncle Sam got his name from Samuel Wilson, a successful meat-packer from Troy, New York during the early 1800s. In addition to butchering and preserving, Samuel and one of his brothers also made wooden casks to transport the meat throughout the Hudson Valley.

During the war of 1812, while northern troops were headquartered near Troy, the Wilson brothers received a government contract to supply meat to the soldiers. Sam also began working as an army meat inspector. On all the Wilson brothers' casks of meat, and on all other casks that passed his inspection, Sam stamped the initials "U.S." Although intended to stand for "United States," this caused some consternation because the more typical abbreviation at the time was "U. States."

In 1961 the U.S. Congress acknowledged what political cartoonists had known for years, that Uncle Sam was a national symbol. Congress passed a resolution saluting "Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's National symbol of Uncle Sam."

Global Cuts Archives has several representations of Uncle Sam in its collections, including this World War I recruitment poster from 1917. It is provided as a High Resolution 3448 x 4640 pixels 150 dpi .TIFF file.

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