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Our good ship "National Credit" in danger from a silver-spout / G & Z.

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Our good ship "National Credit" in danger from a silver-spout / G & Z.

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Illustration shows the bow of a ship approaching a waterspout labeled "80ct $" and "$2,000,000 a Month", and a shark labeled "Panic"; along the side of the ship are President Cleveland as captain, and several men, all unidentified, but may include George F. Edmunds, William M. Evarts, William F. Vilas, Edward L. Hedden, John Sherman, and Augustus Garland, among others. They are about to fire a gun labeled "Repeal of Silver Coinage Act" to break up the waterspout.

Caption: Captain Cleveland "Fire that gun, boys - it's the only way to break it!".
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 458, (1885 December 16), 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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01/01/1885
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Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935, artist
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