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Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
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Illustration shows the Governor of New York, David B. Hill, riding backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled "Democracy" running on railroad tracks near a sign that states "Look Out for the Enlightening Express", he is waving papers labeled "Defiance to Mugwumps" at a locomotive labeled "Independents" bearing down on him and driven by a familiar Puck cartoon figure with Carl Schurz standing behind him. To the right of the tracks are an old man dressed as a clown labeled "Sun" looking down at a small elephant lying on the ground, also dressed as a clown, that looks like Benjamin F. Butler, next to them are William W. Phelps and Whitelaw Reid resting on the fallen Republican elephant that looks like James G. Blaine and is labeled "Ditched Nov. 1884".
Caption: The little experiment made by the Blaine Republicans last year will now be repeated by the New York Democrats.
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 448, (1885 October 7), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Pre-1900 locomotives photographs and art.
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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