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Fresh and cold--Lager beer direct from the North Pole / lith. by A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore, MD.
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Print shows a scene at the North Pole where polar bears are enjoying mugs of lager beer, with a trompe-lœil effect showing overheated people, with fans and sunshades, and one man reaching into the scene for a frosty "fresh and cold" mug of lager beer offered to him by a polar bear.
H7385 U.S. Copyright Office.
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Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower left margin.
Stamped and inscribed in pencil on lower left: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright 1877 No. 7385H.
Printed on label attached to verso: From F. Klemm, Baltimore.
Inscribed on label attached to verso: Mr. Librarian of Congress Washington D.C.
Canceled U.S. Postage one cent stamp attached to verso.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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