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The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age / Gillam.
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Illustration shows Uncle Sam seated at a table in front of "Uncle Sam's Inter-State Market" with a businessman labeled "Northern Capital" on the right and an agricultural producer labeled "Southern Goods - Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Whiskey" on the left. Standing before the table are James G. Blaine labeled "Bloody Shirt", John Sherman, Whitelaw Reid, and Joseph B. Foraker, who all have long flowing hair and beards like Rip Van Winkle; Blaine is leaning on a rifle labeled "Shot Gun". Two young African American men are sitting on a bale of cotton and a keg of "Tobacco" in the lower right corner and in the middle ground African Americans are harvesting cotton. In the background, along the shores of a harbor, is a prosperous city.
Caption: Uncle Sam "My fossil friends, the War ended twenty years ago. Have you been sleeping ever since?"
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 445, (1885 September 16), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 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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