Thaddeus Davids and Cos. writing inks / lith. of Snyder, Black & Sturn 92 William St. New York.
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Print shows a large fountain labeled "Not for a day but for all time" spewing a variety of colored inks; with examples of ink products in an ornamented border, also shows a factory on a river and a large building labeled "Thaddeus Davids & Co. Manufacturing Stationers".
Caption continues: Manufactory: New Rochelle. Depot: Washington Stores 127 & 129 William St. New York.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by Th. Davids & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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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