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Print shows Uncle Sam opening the "Protection Gate" at the "U.S. Custom House" where a sign states "Reduction of Tolls from 50 to 38 Percent. Wool, Lumber, Twine, and Fresh Fish, Free!!. The Roman god Mercury is driving a wagon labeled "Commerce", pulled by horses labeled "Prosperity" and "Business Revival", and loaded with such commodities as "Leather, Flour, Jute, Coal, Cotton, Steel, [and] Wool", through the gate.
Caption: Uncle Sam (to the genius of Commerce) Those tolls ain't as low as we want 'em; but they're the best we can do at present. Now let business go on!
Illus. from Puck, v. 36, no. 912, (1894 August 29), centerfold.
Copyright 1894 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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