Puck's summer round-up / Ehrhart., Puck magazine cover
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Illustration shows several scenes of wit and humor in life at various times and locations involving children swimming, being rebuked for playing baseball on the Sabbath, old men and young women conversing among themselves, and scenes showing "American progression of three years (Next!)" from 1899 to 1901, of a repair shop moving forward with the times, from wagon repair to bicycle repair and then to automobile repair.
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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