Our heroes, and our flags - Public domain monumental decor print
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Memorial print for the Confederacy, published 30 years after the end of the American Civil War. Portraits, clockwise from top center, of "Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, Lt. Gen. T.J. [Stonewall] Jackson, Gen. S. Price, Lt. Gen. Polk, Lt. Gen. Hardee, Gen J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. J.E. Johnston, Lt. Gen. Kirby Smith, John H. Morgan, Lt. Gen. R.S. Ewell, Gen. Wade Hampton, Gen. S. Cooper, Lt. Gen. Longstreet, Gen. Benjamin [i.e., Braxton] Bragg, Gen. Hood, Gen. A.P. Hill, [and] Gen. G.F. [i.e., G.T.] Beauregard," surround the central image of Robert E. Lee, an equestrian statue, and four Confederate flags.
AA60165 U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright stamp on item.
Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower right corner.
Stamped on lower right corner: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright. Dec 12 1895.
Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner: 60165aa.
Copyright statement from card filed in the Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Print-registration marks appear on top, bottom, and left side.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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