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Peter Cooper's example, which our mulit-millionaire philanthropists might follow with good results / Ehrhart.

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Peter Cooper's example, which our mulit-millionaire philanthropists might follow with good results / Ehrhart.

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Illustration shows Puck standing next to a statue of Peter Cooper in front of the Cooper Union building; Puck is holding a paper that states "Puck suggests a few outlets for overflowing incomes". Crowds of working class men and women and disadvantaged youths in need of proper education fill the sides, while in the center throngs of people stream toward the entrances to the Cooper Union building.

Illus. in: Puck, v. 52, no. 1338 (1902 October 22), centerfold.
Copyright 1902 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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01/01/1902
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Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist
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