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Noxious growths in liberty's grounds / J. Keppler.
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Illustration shows Uncle Sam and a female figure identified as Liberty strolling through a park among trees labeled "Equal Rights, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Speech, Free Ballot, Constitution, [and] Religious Liberty"; around the bases of the trees are many mushrooms labeled "Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopoly, Socialist, Nihilist, Dynamiter, Communist, Anarchist, Demagogism, Bribery, [and] Corrupt", and a vine labeled "Protection" is beginning to strangle a tree labeled "Unrestricted Commerce". Puck, sitting on a tree branch, tells Uncle Sam that he needs to clear out the fungus before it destroys "Liberty's" park. Some of the mushrooms have faces that might be identified.
Caption: Uncle Sam Hello, Puck, are you "up a tree"? - Puck No, but you will be if you don't clear this stuff out pretty soon!
Illus. from Puck, v. 16, no. 416, (1885 February 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 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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