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Foes in his path - the herculean task before our next president / Gillam.
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Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as Hercules carrying a large club labeled "Honest Legislation", encountering a group of troublemakers along the "Administration Road" to "Success" seen in the distant background. Among the problems to be dealt with are a "Rotten Navy" represented by a two-headed hydra labeled "Robeson" and "Roach" holding a club labeled "Lobby", an old man labeled "Mormonism" with many wives dangling from his belt, Jay Gould labeled "Land Grabber" holding a club labeled "Monopoly" and carrying a sack with papers labeled "R.R. Land Grab, U. Pacific Land Grab, [and] Land Grab", a stereotypical Jewish man wearing a top hat labeled "Bankrupt" and holding papers labeled "List of Preferred Creditors", a vulture labeled "High Tariff" and "Over-Production" sitting next to the prostrate body of a man whose hat, labeled "Labor", has fallen on a nearby rock, and two men, one labeled "Cuba" holding a paper that states "Please Help a Poor Man with a Treaty" and the other labeled "Mexico" holding a paper that states "Please Help Poor Mexico with a Treaty", a snake labeled "Silver Swindle" among the rocks, and a man in the background labeled "To the Victor Belong the Spoils" holding a club.
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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