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A few snap-shots at the "powers that be" in the average commercial house / Ehrhart.
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Print shows a vignette cartoon where the employees of a commercial establishment, in surrounding vignettes, take credit and responsibility for the success of the business, those depicted are the "Office Boy", the "Typewriter" secretary, a "Bookkeeper", "Drummer", Freight Elevator" operator, a "Bill Collector", "Foreman", and an "Office-Cleaner" janitor. At center, the business owner sits at a desk and prays to that "divine and merciful Providence which watches over fools".
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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