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Print shows President William McKinley as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his top hat, and wearing a red cape labeled "McKinley", standing next to a large rock labeled "Prosperity" that has split and is spewing money toward a throng of people representing mostly the working class and the poor who stream from the factories in the background.
Caption: The people foolishly think that McKinley will be able to tap the rock of prosperity, à la Moses, and make money flow like water.
Illus. from Puck, v. 41, no. 1044, (1897 March 10), 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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