A tempting tail / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Summary
Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a peacock displaying his tail feathers which are labeled "Surplus". There are men on the right and the left with large scissors labeled "Shipping Subsidy, Rivers & Harbors, Nicaragua Canal, Army and Navy, [and] Appropriations" which they are using to trim Uncle Sam's tail feathers.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1298 (1902 January 15), centerfold.
Copyright 1902 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.
Tags
Date
Contributors
Source
Copyright info