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National currency / JS Conway. - Public domain dedication image
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Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of a U.S. $10 national currency issued by the "National Bank of Washington" pinned to a notice from the "[Treas]ury Department, National Note Bureau".
C3279 U.S. Copyright Office.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Milwaukee Chromo Lith. Co. with the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on lower left corner.
Includes print registration marks on all sides and a color bar, indicating 12 stones, across the bottom.
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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