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Uncle Sam's "crazes" past and present / F. Opper.

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Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting the current "craze" for "Free Silver", showing Uncle Sam riding a silver rocking horse, and participating in several fads "Past and Present", such as the "Blue Glass Craze" after Augustus J. Pleasonton's discovery of the properties of blue light, the "Prohibition Crusade", the "Roller-Skating Craze", a puzzle craze in the 1880s with the "Fifteen Puzzle" of 15 sliding blocks in a square box and "Pigs in Clover" a "rollling-ball dexterity puzzle", the "Paderewski Craze" around 1891 for piano music by Ignace J. Paderewski, the cycling craze, which has not yet ended, and the "Schlatter Craze", which did come to an end with the disappearance and death of faith healer Francis Schlatter.

Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 1012, (1896 July 29), centerfold.

Copyright 1896 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

The Liberty Bell, “Stars and Stripes” or “Old Glory”, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Unce Sam, symbols of U.S. States and more.

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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pleasonton a j augustus james paderewski ignace jan schlatter francis uncle sam symbolic character fads prohibition roller skating puzzles cycling healers hobby horses silver question cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations uncle sam uncle sam crazes opper political cartoons vintage images prints 19th century images of uncle sam prohibition amendment prohibition in 1920 s frederick burr opper ultra high resolution high resolution 1920 s library of congress
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01/01/1896
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Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937, artist
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American Symbolism

Various symbols of the United States and more.

Chromolithographs

Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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pleasonton a j augustus james paderewski ignace jan schlatter francis uncle sam symbolic character fads prohibition roller skating puzzles cycling healers hobby horses silver question cartoons commentary chromolithographs color periodical illustrations uncle sam uncle sam crazes opper political cartoons vintage images prints 19th century images of uncle sam prohibition amendment prohibition in 1920 s frederick burr opper ultra high resolution high resolution 1920 s library of congress