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Mercantile calendar - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a calendar for the year 1860 with floral border, cherubs, and a portrait of Johann Guetnberg as the "Inventor of Printing"; serves as an advertisement for "John H. Duyckinck Stationer and Printer 164 Pearl Street, Steam Power Printing Office No. 6 Cedar St. New York."
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Inscribed in ink on bottom: Deposited in Clerks Office Southern Sist. New York December 15, 1859.
Inscribed in red ink on bottom center: 339.
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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