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Granger shirt - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a railroad on the left labeled "No Monopoly" unloading goods at a station labeled "Cheap Transportation Line"; at center is a teamster standing near his horse-drawn wagon, he is talking with three men and pointing to the left, one of the men is pointing to the right toward a railroad station labeled "Monopoly Opposed to Opposition." On the ground, on the left, are boxes labeled "C.S. & B. Shirt & Drawers 70 Worth St."
E2004 U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright stamp on item.
Copyright stamp and number appear on upper left.
Print-registration marks appear at top and bottom and both sides.
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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