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Illustration shows Liberty sitting on a chair teaching a young boy about the "Public School System"; a kitten labeled "Romish Infl." drinks from a bowl labeled "Toleration" at their feet. In a series of vignettes, the kitten grows into a cat, getting larger and larger, until it has become a large tiger wearing clerical robes labeled "Romish Influence", standing over Liberty and the young boy who are unconscious on the floor.
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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