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Kings of Wall Street, portrait print
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Print shows, from left, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, Rufus Hatch, Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, Darius Ogden Mills, William H. Vanderbilt, August Belmont, George Ballou, and James R. Keene, with a portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt hanging on the wall in the background.
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Printed at bottom: H.G. Fledderman, Mercer, Draper and Tailor, Baltimore, MD.
Stamped and inscribed on verso: Gift Mrs. Noble Newport Potts Oct 5 1945 The Library of Congress.
Inscribed in ink on verso: A450153.
Gift; Mrs. Noble Newport Potts; 1945 Oct. 5; (DLC/PP-450153)
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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