In god we trust - Public domain monumental decor print
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Print showing bust portrait of "Jonathan & David" in oval surrounded by religious and masonic scenes and symbols.
768 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: Friendship, Love & Truth. "But the greatest of these is charity."
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1883 by Pettibone Mfg. Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
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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