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Will it pay? D.L. Moody and J.V. Farwell's first Sunday school class, North Market Hall, Chicago, Ill. / / Ruehlow.
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Print showing D.L. Moody and J.V. Farwell standing with group of 14 boys on street in front of a building. The "street names of the boys" are listed by number on the color impression; only no. 1 "Red Eye" (standing far left) and no. 7 "Madden the Butcher" (sitting with broom far right) are numbered, those sitting on the ground in the front row must represent nos. 8-14.
G2249 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: "Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in." As a whole it represents the mission work in the streets and alleys of Chicago.
Signed on stone lower left.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1876 by G.H. Flood, Chicago, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Library has two impressions, one color and one b&w proof.
Title on b&w proof impression is inscribed in ink; signed in pencil "G.H. Flood of Chicago" lower right.
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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