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Print shows on the upper left a line of men at a pay window labeled "Notice Bachelors' Tax. Taxes must be paid on or before 1st of fiscal year under penalty of fine. Males under 21 year[s] exemp[t]"; they are paying the "Bachelors' Tax". On the lower right is a line of mostly elderly men at a pay window labeled "Notice Bonus to Married Men paid here. Marriage certificates must be accompanied with affidavit"; they are receiving a bonus payment.
Caption: Why not force the non-combatants to help pay the expenses of those brave men who have enlisted in the war of matrimony?
Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1114, (1898 July 13), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 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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