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A strike preventive Keppler, chromolithograph
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Illustration shows Puck talking to a laborer who is sitting at home, on strike; Puck shows him a paper that states: "Cost of the steel strike to the workingman $10,000,000", standing behind the man is a woman holding a baby; she is horrified. A man labeled "Walking Delegate" is looking in at the window.
Caption: Puck (to Organized Labor) The Chinese stop the pay of their doctors when they fall sick - why don't you stop the pay of your walking delegate while a strike is on? It would save you a lot of money.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1284 (1901 October 9), cover.
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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