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Condemned to die / F. Opper. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Print shows David B. Hill labeled "Hill-ism", Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger labeled "Croker-ism", and Roswell P. Flower, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, labeled "Flower-ism", standing on the right on "Condemned Row" in the "Prison of Public Condemnation"; they are watching a group of men, on the left, construct a guillotine labeled "Reform Movement". Puck is standing on the left with "Parkhurst, Grace, Lexow, Godkin, Ottendorfer, [and] Goff, who is posting a notice on the wall of the prison that states "Notice! On Election Day, Nov. 6th 1894. Execution of Hill-ism, Croker-ism, and Flower-ism. By Order of the People."
Illus. from Puck, v. 35, no. 901, (1894 June 13), centerfold.
Copyright 1894 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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