Vintage Fourth of July Greeting Card, Patriotic Lady Liberty Design

Uncle Sam's deep, reverent bow — decked out in full stars-and-stripes regalia, red-and-white striped pants and all — as he shakes hands with a woman in a flowing white dress and red hat creates an almost ceremonial energy, both of them literally radiating golden light like they're completing some kind of patriotic Dragonball Z fusion in front of a giant American flag backdrop. The text 'Hurrah for the Glorious Fourth' floats between them in the glowing aura, which raises the question: who greenlit making July 4th feel like a marriage proposal? The whole composition has the energy of a wedding announcement between two people who've never met but their families really want this to happen — America and... also America, apparently.