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W-h-o-a!!! / Dalrymple. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Print shows William McKinley driving a large circus carriage labeled "McKinley's Presidential Band Wagon" being pulled by the Republican Elephant labeled "G.O.P." which has come to a stop at a sign at the edge of an abyss, the sign states "Danger! Results of the McKinley Bill. Decline of wages. Desperate Labor Strikes, and Lock Outs. 1,000,000 Men Out of Employment. Falling off of Customs Revenues $157,000,000. Disappearance of Treasury Surplus of $100,000,000. Net Loss of Gold in Exports $200,000,000." The abyss blocks McKinley from reaching the U.S. Capitol, seen at far right. The "Band" in the wagon is comprised of "M.A. Hanna", Andrew "Carnegie", John D. "Rockefeller", Theodore and possibly Henry O. "Havemeyer", and Whitelaw Reid playing a drum labeled "N.Y. Tribune". Marching behind the wagon are men carrying banners labeled "Trusts" and "Monopoly".
Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 999, (1896 April 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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