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Print shows a series of images, starting in the upper left, with a kitten labeled "Romish Influence" drinking from a saucer labeled "Toleration", and a young boy holding a book labeled "Public School System", standing with Liberty; as the images progress across the top, the kitten grows into a young tiger, until on the bottom left, it becomes a frightening tiger sitting on a table, and in the final vignette, it has grown to full size, wearing clerical robes labeled "Romish influence" and now stands over both the boy and Liberty, with a paw on each of them.
Caption: Reprinted from Puck of January 16th, 1884. - Puck finds no stronger comment on the renewal of Catholic agitation for a share of the Public School Funds.
Illus. from Puck, v. 34, no. 878, (1894 January 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1894 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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