Well protected / C.J. Taylor. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Print shows William McKinley walking down a street in the neighborhood of "Anarchy Slum" with a tall, well-dressed female figure labeled "Gold Standard" on his arm and two policemen labeled "Palmer" and "Buckner" walking behind them; on the wall is a presidential campaign poster that states "Vote for Bryan, Watson and Repudiation". In the background, Mary E. Lease is standing at the corner of a building, and Benjamin R. Tillman and John P. Altgeld are standing on a cobblestone street labeled "Populist Alley". An unidentified man, possibly William Sulzer, is leaning against the wall of the building, between "Miss Gold Standard" and "Palmer".
Caption: Miss Gold Standard and her escort have a brace of strong policemen to see them through the slums of Popocracy.
Illus. from Puck, v. 40, no. 1022, (1896 October 7), 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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