Inauguration day, 1897 - a good beginning / Dalrymple.
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Print shows President William McKinley sitting at his desk in the oval office, as former president Grover Cleveland departs with Uncle Sam; Puck is standing on a step-ladder, carving "McKinleys Good Record" and "Gage, Sec. of Treasury" into stone next to "Cleveland's Good Record" which includes "Extension of Civil Service Reform", "Repeal of Silver Purchase Bill", Suppression of Chicago Riots", Settlement of Venezuelan Controversy", and "Arbitration Agreement with England".
Caption: Puck Keep on this way, Mr. President, and you may leave as good a record as your predecessor!
Illus. from Puck, v. 41, no. 1043, (1897 March 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1897 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885. Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. He is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His will for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. As his second administration began, disaster hit the nation when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression, which Cleveland was unable to reverse. "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of the United States from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War. He promoted the tariffs to protect manufacturers from foreign competition, and in 1900, he secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. He led the nation in the Spanish–American War of 1898: the U.S. victory was quick and decisive. "The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
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.
Collection - President Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United StatesCollection - President William McKinley
William McKinley was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901Collection - Chromolithographs
Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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