[Tradecard: Child in a boot] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress
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Print shows the head and hands of a young child in a large woman's shoe or boot, with space for advertising text on the right, and a cat warily approaching, on the left, in the background.
B8208 U.S. Copyright Office.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by Clay, Cosack & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on back.
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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