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Summary

Advertising trade card shows a small child with baseball bat about to attempt hitting a thrown baseball.

"General Office: 323 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO."
Forms part of: Samuel Rosenberg 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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01/01/1870
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Location

Old North Saint Louis38.64910, -90.19590
Google Map of 38.6491, -90.1959
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