Uncle Sam makes his appearance

The modern version of the cartoon character "Uncle Sam" makes his first appearance in the New York City comic weekly Lantern.  He appears in a cartoon drawn by Frank Henry Temple Bellow illustrating "Uncle Sam" confronting "John Bull" in an international shipping dispute. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 153.
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