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A Christmas reminder / Keppler., Political Cartoon
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Illustration shows Puck addressing Andrew Carnegie who is pouring over the "Plan for the Carnegie Library"; Puck gestures toward an elderly couple standing at the door in the cold winter wind and snow.
Caption: Puck (to Mr. Carnegie) Books are already so cheap and libraries so abundant that even the poorest man has all the literature he wants. Now, why not provide respectable homes for the people who are too old to work and who were never able to save anything from their scanty wages; - and so keep them from beggary, starvation or suicide?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1294 (1901 December 18), centerfold.
Copyright 1901 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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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