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Uncle Sam's "crazes" past and present / F. Opper.
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Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting the current "craze" for "Free Silver", showing Uncle Sam riding a silver rocking horse, and participating in several fads "Past and Present", such as the "Blue Glass Craze" after Augustus J. Pleasonton's discovery of the properties of blue light, the "Prohibition Crusade", the "Roller-Skating Craze", a puzzle craze in the 1880s with the "Fifteen Puzzle" of 15 sliding blocks in a square box and "Pigs in Clover" a "rollling-ball dexterity puzzle", the "Paderewski Craze" around 1891 for piano music by Ignace J. Paderewski, the cycling craze, which has not yet ended, and the "Schlatter Craze", which did come to an end with the disappearance and death of faith healer Francis Schlatter.
Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 1012, (1896 July 29), centerfold.
Copyright 1896 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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