Kansas City in 1855 & 1887 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress
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Print showing view of Kansas City as it looked in 1855 and bird's-eye views of several buildings present in Kansas City in 1887.
21952 U.S. Copyright Office.
(inscribed in pencil).
Copyrighted by The Lanward Specialty Publishing Co., Chicago.
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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