A promising chicken / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon
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Print shows a small chick labeled "Prosperity" that has emerged from a large egg labeled "Easter 1897"; a rooster labeled "Rep. Party" is crowing in the background and a hen with the head of President McKinley is strutting on the right.
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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