Inauguration day, 1897 - a good beginning / Dalrymple.
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Print shows President William McKinley sitting at his desk in the oval office, as former president Grover Cleveland departs with Uncle Sam; Puck is standing on a step-ladder, carving "McKinleys Good Record" and "Gage, Sec. of Treasury" into stone next to "Cleveland's Good Record" which includes "Extension of Civil Service Reform", "Repeal of Silver Purchase Bill", Suppression of Chicago Riots", Settlement of Venezuelan Controversy", and "Arbitration Agreement with England".
Caption: Puck Keep on this way, Mr. President, and you may leave as good a record as your predecessor!
Illus. from Puck, v. 41, no. 1043, (1897 March 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1897 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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