Montana state capitol building / litho. by W.E. Stephens & Co., 716 Locust St., St. Louis.
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Print shows competition drawing (not final design) for the state capitol building in Helena, Montana. With busy street scene of carriages and coaches, and large groups of people standing on steps and at entrances to the building.
66454 U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyrighted 1896 by Geo. R. Mann, Architect, St. Louis, Mo. & Helena, Mont.
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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