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The old woman of the Senate is doing her best - at a hopeless job / Dalrymple.

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The old woman of the Senate is doing her best - at a hopeless job / Dalrymple.

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Print shows George F. Hoar as an old washer-woman, with a large brush labeled "Magazine Articles and Speeches", white-washing senators from a bucket labeled "Defense of the Senate". He is applying a fresh coat to Thomas C. Pratt while others wait in line.

Illus. from Puck, v. 42, no. 1078, (1897 November 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1897 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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01/01/1897
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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist
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