Theodore Roosevelt, Chrls W. Fairbanks
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Print shows political campaign poster with bust portraits of, on the left, Theodore Roosevelt, for president, and, on the right, Charles W. Fairbanks, for vice president, in medallions separated by an eagle holding a stars and stripes shield and, at the bottom, cornucopias. Includes facsimile signatures.
8140 (Class Y) U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Inscribed in ink on lower right corner: © cl y 8140 Oct. 6, 1904.
Each portrait photograph "copyright 1904, by Pach Bros. N.Y."
Copyright stamp on verso largely obscured by fabric backing.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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