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"Independence Day" of the future / C.J. Taylor.

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Print shows a future 4th of July celebration where women have gained suffrage and equality; it shows young and old women ringing a bell labeled "Equal Rights", as women emerge from underground and participate in a procession, marching under banners that state "United Order of Matinee Women" and "Higher Culture Division" past statures of a woman holding a rolling pin labeled "Erected to the Memory of the First Woman Who Wore Breeches" and an eagle, wearing a bonnet, labeled "The American Bird is a Hen Eagle and Lays Eggs. Lil Blake Sculp." A notice on a bell tower states "Strike Out the Word Male".

Illus. from Puck, v. 35, no. 904, (1894 July 4), centerfold.

Copyright 1894 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Retro-Futurism​ and Vintage [Science] Fiction Images Collection Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation.

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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fourth of july fourth of july celebrations women civil rights women suffrage autonomy bells fantasy cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations independence independence day future taylor political cartoons vintage images 4th of july prints 19th century charles jay taylor ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress
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01/01/1894
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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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fourth of july fourth of july celebrations women civil rights women suffrage autonomy bells fantasy cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations independence independence day future taylor political cartoons vintage images 4th of july prints 19th century charles jay taylor ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress