The circus has come! / Keppler., Political Cartoon
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Print shows William C. "Whitney" as the ringmaster at a circus where "D.B. Hill" is performing a horse riding trick by trying to ride two horses at once, a small horse labeled "Gold Standard" and a larger horse labeled "Free Silver"; also in the ring is a clown labeled "Harvey". Among those in the audience are William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas B. Reed, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, William B. Allison, William E. Chandler, William F. Peffer, Whitelaw Reid, Grover Cleveland, and Joseph J.C. Blackburn or Charles A. Boutelle.
Caption: The New Ringmaster Gentlemen of the audience, the great equestrian, "The Senator", will perform his thrilling feat of riding two horses simultaneously! - Brace up, Dave, everybody's looking at you!
Illus. from Puck, v. 37, no. 955, (1895 June 26), centerfold.
Copyright 1895 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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