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New York's new solar system / Keppler.

New York's new solar system / Keppler.

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Print shows Richard Croker as a radiant sun at the center of New York's "Solar System" with such figures labeled "Pawnbroker, Brewer, Laborer, Hayseed, Fireman, Gambler, Liquor Dealer, Contractor, Soubrette, [and] Heeler", among others, and people identified as "D. Hill, Belmont, Gould, Murphy, W. Reid, T. Platt, J.J. Astor, [and] Van Wyck" revolving around him.

Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1099, (1898 March 30), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

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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01/01/1898
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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
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