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The popular tendency to rail at wealth is not entirely justified / Ehrhart.
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Print shows a vignette cartoon with a group of working class individuals complaining about the selfish accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of society; the surrounding vignettes illustrate the philanthropic deeds of the rich, such as a "Museum of Art" open to all, "Low-Rent Tenements", "Free Milk for the Poor", "Free Ice for the Poor", "Fresh Air Excursion for Poor Mothers and Children", "Free Kindergarten for Poor Children", colleges endowed by wealthy citizens, health care centers, and "Free" libraries.
Caption: Chorus of the Poor Man, the Socialist, the Dissatisfied Laborer, the Populist Farmer, the Demagogue, the Chronic Idler, and the Struggling Professional Man "Down with Selfish, Grasping Capital!"
Illus. from Puck, v. 41, no. 1061, (1897 July 7), 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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