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Fizz! Boom!! Ah!!! / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon
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Print shows a fireworks display with an "Anarchist" and John P. "Altgeld" lighting a rocket labeled "Altgeld Anarchistic Boom" and several men identified as "Bland, Crisp, Teller, Waite, Blackburn, Wolcott, Morgan, [and] Stewart" lighting rockets around a large medallion labeled "Free Silver Coinage Craze" with a silver coin labeled "In 16 to 1 We Trust"; Blackburn is holding a rocket labeled "Silver Speech" and on the ground are fireworks labeled "Snap Silver Resolutions". At a table on the right, labeled "Coin's Financial Hocus Pocus Game", is William H. Harvey operating a shell game, and behind him is William A. Peffer, the "Windy Man from Kansas".
Caption: They are making great preparations for their Populistic Pyrotechnical display; but it will be only another fizzle.
Illus. from Puck, v. 37, no. 956, (1895 July 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1895 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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