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Illustration shows a scene at a boathouse where an exhausted James G. Blaine, suffering from "Guano Gout", is being attended to by Jay Gould, Whitelaw Reid, George M. Robeson, William W. Phelps, and Stephen B. Elkins who is searching a box of patent medicines labeled "Remedy, Record Cleaner, Tariff Fever Cure, R.R. Record Purifier, Tattoo Eradicator, [and] Vermont Reviver (Homoepathic)" for a cure; John A. Logan readies the racing shell labeled "Aggressive Campaign" that may be stuck in "Monopoly Mud", and Stephen W. Dorsey, at the entrance to the boathouse, carries oars labeled "Soap" and [Star] "Router", and hanging on the wall are shells and oars labeled "Guano Statesmanship, Speaker Ship's Record Boat, Senatorial Record, [and] Tariff Issue". Grover Cleveland waits in his racing shell labeled "Reform" and Carl Schurz stands at the entrance to the "Independent Boat House" which is next to the "Democratic Boat House". In the background is a crowded grandstand.
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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