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"Step up, gentlemen, and try your luck!" / Dalrymple.
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Print shows a ringmaster labeled "Harrity Chairman Dem. Natl. Com." standing on the left and the Democratic Donkey wearing a saddle labeled "1896" and "$50,000 a year for the man who can ride on this donkey to the White House"; Harrity offers an opportunity to ride to several reluctant man in the grandstands, they are identified as "Stevenson, Hill, Pattison, Olney, Matthews, [and] Campbell", and William R. Morrison. In the background, riding on the Republican Elephant labeled "1896" are "McKinley, Morton, Reed, Allison, [and] Quay". McKinley holds a pennant labeled "Protection".
Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 997, (1896 April 15), 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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