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The writing on the wall / J. Keppler.
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Illustration shows a dinner party attended by presidential candidate James G. Blaine who is trying to cover himself with pages of the New York Tribune, and by his side, vice-presidential candidate John A. Logan; seated around a table set with "Pension Pie, Monopoly Stew, [and] Star Route Shortcake" are James W. Husted, Chancey M. Depew, Powell Clayton, Joseph Medill, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, a man identified as "Elkins", William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Cyrus W. Field, Whitelaw Reid on his feet, John Roach, and Robert G. Ingersoll fleeing with a bone labeled "Star Route Spoils". Blaine wears an "Anti-Sunstroke Cabbage Leaf" on his head, to which is attached a quill pen labeled "Gail Hamilton". Projected onto a wall at the far end of the room are the words "Republican Revolt", which has frightened everyone in the room.
Illus. from Puck, v. 15, no. 380, (1884 June 18), 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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