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The two trusts / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Print shows two large male figures, one, wearing business attire, is labeled "Commercial Trust", he is holding paper labeled "Order to Raise Wages" and the other labeled "Labor Trust" is armed with a bomb, a handgun, and a rifle, and is holding paper labeled "Order to Strike". Behind the "Labor Trust" are unemployed families, explosions, and anarchy; behind the "Commercial Trust" is order, as men head for factories.
Caption: Commercial Trust (to Labor Trust) While you are denouncing me, why don't you include yourself? You use violence and destroy property, while I use peaceful methods and not only lower prices but raise wages, as the statistics of the last fifteen years will show.
Illus. from Puck, v. 45, no. 1161, (1899 June 7), centerfold.
Copyright 1899 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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