Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. - railway car builders, car wheels and general railway, work / sketched & on stone by Parsons & Atwater.
Summary
Print showing bird's-eye view of the Wason railroad car manufacturing company facilities at Springfield, Massachusetts, with the Connecticut River in the background.
Caption continues: Works at Brightwood five minutes from Springfield on Conn. River, R.R.
Color drawing available at: DRWG/US - Parsons, no. 1 (D size) see: LCCN 2006680111.
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 154.
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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