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Print shows Matthew S. Quay and Thomas C. Platt holding papers labeled "Great Republican Farce Comedy - Presidential Aspirations - Star Part", with Thomas B. Reed, William B. Allison, William McKinley and Levi P. Morton as actors in costume; on the far left, Benjamin Harrison is exiting the building.
Caption: The Stock Company (in chorus) "I want that part - it requires whiskers, and I've got 'em!", "Give that character to me, and I'll keep the house in order with it!","Let me have it - I'm a regular Napoleon in that kind of rôle!", "Don't mind those young fellows, - a man of mature age is needed to play it right!"
Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 990, (1896 February 26), centerfold.
Copyright 1896 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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