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Animal fair - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows men, women, and children at an animal fair; in the left foreground a woman and a man are looking at a horse in a stall, to the right are two children looking a sheep and goats in a pen, and behind them is a man leading a large bull, and in the background, other spectators are looking at cows.
636 U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyright 1900, by the Fair Pub. House, Norwalk, Ohio.
No. 807.
Copyright stamp on verso at bottom right: May 16 1901 [no.] 636.
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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