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Trying to drag him from his altar and his idol / Dalrymple.

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Trying to drag him from his altar and his idol / Dalrymple.

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Illustration shows an old man labeled "Progressive Republican" trying to pull an aged and battered elephant labeled "G.O.P." from where it kneels before a golden idol with a "$" on its chest, sitting on a pedestal labeled "High Protection Idol." The elephant has wrapped its trunk around a bar attached to the "High Tariff Altar." In the background, the U.S. Capitol beams "Fair Trade."

Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1278 (1901 August 28), centerfold.
Copyright 1901 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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01/01/1901
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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist
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