Yosemite Valley / Bencke & Scott ; L. Williams.
Summary
Print shows Natives camping by stream in Yosemite Valley.
D673 U.S. Copyright Office.
Entered According to Act of Congress by Joseph Hoover, A.D. 1873, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Copyright by Joseph Hoover.
Inscribed in ink on right: Yosemite Valley pub. by Jos. Hoover 1873.
Label on verso: Hoover's American Chromos. Yosemite Valley. View up the Valley from the Foot of "El Capitan".
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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