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The receiving-vault of the Republican politicians who defied public morality / Gillam.

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The receiving-vault of the Republican politicians who defied public morality / Gillam.

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Illustration shows a procession carrying an embalmed James G. Blaine to place among other embalmed Republicans in an Egyptian tomb; among those previously embalmed are Thomas C. Platt, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas Brady, Ulysses S. Grant, Roscoe Conkling, George M. Robeson, Joseph W. Keifer, William P. Kellogg, and William Belknap. Among those carrying the embalmed Blaine labeled "Nominated June 6, Embalmed Nov. 1884" are William W. Phelps, Whitelaw Reid, William H. Robertson, Powell Clayton, and Joseph Medill.

Caption: The wire-pullers have nominated him; but the people will send him where they have sent the others.
Illus. from Puck, v. 15, no. 379, (1884 June 11), centerfold.
Copyright 1884 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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01/01/1884
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Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896, artist
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