The Masonic Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio lithographed & published by Middleton, Strobridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio
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Print shows view from street of the Masonic Temple, with carriage and pedestrian traffic in front, and view on the left of the business establishments of the lithographers Middleton, Strobridge & Co. and architects Hamilton & McLaughlin.
"Designed by Hamilton & McLaughlin[,] Architects."
Inscribed: Recorded in Record [?] Jany 18 1859 ; Deposited Sept. 6th 1860.
Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1859 by Middleton, Strobridge & Co. in the clerks office of the District court of the Southern District of Ohio.
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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