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Too many leaders / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Illustration shows a winter scene with a soldier labeled "Democracy" standing in front of a road sign that points in four directions "Free Trade, To Tariff Reform, To Protection, [and] No Policy", between his feet is a small dog that looks like John Kelly. "Speaker Carlisle" as a drum major for "Reform" is standing in the left foreground, behind and to the left are Benjamin Butler "Butlerism", Abram S. "Hewitt" with "Free Trade" banner, and Samuel S. "Cox" pointing toward "Free Trade"; Samuel J. "Randall" is standing in the right foreground, wearing a helmet labeled "Protection", behind and to the right are Sereno "Payne" with banner labeled "Straddle Every Issue!", Thomas "Bayard" holding papers that state "Dodge the Question", and Samuel J. Tilden labeled "Ancient Issues".
Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 360, (1884 January 30), 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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