The good samaritan / Gillam. - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Illustration shows Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland as pilgrims on a journey through rugged Middle Eastern landscape; leading the way is Hayes, holding a paper that states "Patronage to Reward - The Returning Board" and carrying a canteen of "Cold Water", behind him is Arthur who is looking back at Cleveland, with a donkey, who has stopped to help a man labeled "Civil Service" who has fainted from lack of water.
Illus. from Puck, v. 17, no. 419, (1885 March 18), 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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