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An object lesson / J.S. Pughe. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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An object lesson / J.S. Pughe. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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Illustration shows Charles M. Schwab holding a moneybag labeled "Schwab", standing next to Andrew Carnegie who is sitting on the ground, holding a moneybag labeled "Carnegie" and with a basket labeled "$10,000,000 for Scotch Universities" overflowing with money next to him. Schwab gestures toward factories on the left as he addresses Carnegie; in the background, on the right, is a line of old men wearing caps and gowns and carrying "Diplomas" under their arms, emerging from a building labeled "University."

Caption: Schwab (to Carnegie) This is the school most people must go to, and the one that has always turned out the biggest men. That other school is for the few and is already turning out too many doctors, ministers, lawyers and clerks. Don't you think we ought to improve conditions in our school rather than in that other one?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 49, no. 1268 (1901 June 19), centerfold.
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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01/01/1901
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Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909, artist
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