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Illustration shows several wealthy men, "Gould, W.K. Vanderbilt, W.H. Vanderbilt, Sage, Cornell, [and] Cornelius Vanderbilt", some dressed as women, holding ticker tape and dancing around a may pole; Cyrus W. Field, dressed as a woman, sits on a safe next to the pole, sitting on a bench to the left are Chauncey M. Depew playing cymbols labeled "Monopolist Music" and Whitelaw Reid playing a horn labeled "Tribune", behind them is William M. Evarts looking out a window in a building labeled "Millionaires Snug Harbor", and in the background is a "Monopoly Mill" labeled "Stocks" and "U.S. Bonds"; lambs gambol nearby. Includes verse.
Illus. from Puck, v. 17, no. 425, (1885 April 29), 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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