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Uncle Sam's lodging-house / J. Keppler.
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Print shows an Irishman confronting Uncle Sam in a boarding house filled with laborers, immigrants from several countries who are attempting to sleep; the "Frenchman, Japanese, Negro, Russian, Italian," and "German" sleep peacefully. The "Irishman" kicks up a row. He has thrown such bricks as "The Chinese must go," "Recall Lowell," and "Irish independence" at Uncle Sam and the female figure of liberty standing on the left. He disturbs a "Chinese" man and an "Englishman," who are in the berths next to him.
Caption: Uncle Sam "Look here, you, everybody else is quiet and peaceable, and you're all the time a-kicking up a row!"
Illus. in: Puck, v. 11, no. 274 (1882 June 7), centerfold.
2nd copy illus. from: Puck, v. 11, no. 274 (1882 June 7), pp. 220-221.
Library has two copies, one bound in vol. 11 and the second copy in LOT 14014.
Copyright 1882 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
2nd copy forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress).
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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