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A down-hill movement / C.J. Taylor.

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Print shows a wagon labeled "Free Silver" filled with a group of "free silver" supporters identified as "Tillman, Boies, Sheehan, Bland, Blackburn, Bryan, Sewall, Pattison, Sibley, Jones, Geo. Fred Williams, Peffer, [and] Altgeld"; Tillman holds a pitchfork with flag labeled "Repudiation" and Altgeld holds a burning torch. The wagon had been harnessed to a mule wearing a halter labeled "Democracy"; it has broken loose and is gathering speed as it rolls backwards down a hill.

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.

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bryan william jennings sewall arthur peffer william alfred jones john p john percival tillman benjamin r benjamin ryan pattison robert e robert emory altgeld john peter sibley joseph crocker williams george fred bland richard parks blackburn joseph c s joseph clay stiles sheehan john c secretary aqueduct commission boies horace democratic party us democratic donkey symbolic character presidential elections political platforms silver question carts and wagons cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations down hill movement taylor political cartoons vintage images prints george 19th century flag library of congress
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01/01/1896
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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929, artist
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Chromolithographs

Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Sewall Arthur, Boies Horace, Joseph Clay Stiles

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bryan william jennings sewall arthur peffer william alfred jones john p john percival tillman benjamin r benjamin ryan pattison robert e robert emory altgeld john peter sibley joseph crocker williams george fred bland richard parks blackburn joseph c s joseph clay stiles sheehan john c secretary aqueduct commission boies horace democratic party us democratic donkey symbolic character presidential elections political platforms silver question carts and wagons cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations down hill movement taylor political cartoons vintage images prints george 19th century flag library of congress