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Broken banks - defaulting cashiers - negligent directors - who is responsible? / J. Keppler.
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Print shows a police officer holding O.L. Baldwin, cashier at the Mechanics' National Bank in Newark, by the shoulder while Baldwin, using "Speculation Soap Suds", blows a soap bubble labeled "500,000 Paid in Capital" and "Surplus Fund $400,000" that drips money into a top hat in front many old men labeled "Bank Director" and investors entering on the right, in the background. At his feet are papers labeled "Cooked Statement". Puck gestures toward the old men and suggests the police officer consider arresting them as well.
Caption: Puck to Representative of the Law "You have got the thief - now take the men who let him steal the money of the trusting depositors."
Illus. from Puck, v. 10, no. 244, (1881 November 9), centerfold.
Copyright 1881 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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