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Looking forward / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Print shows a female figure labeled "Cuba" on one knee appealing to Uncle Sam for a continued American presence in Cuba, as a means to prevent "Famine, Pestilence, War, [and] Revolt" and for providing "Prosperity" and "Peace", and trade in such products as "Tobacco, Cigars, Sugar, Coffee, [and] Fruit".
Caption: Cuba If you leave me to myself it will mean the old troubles. With your help I can have peace and prosperity. Do not desert me!
Illus. from Puck, v. 46, no. 1182, (1899 November 1), centerfold.
Copyright 1899 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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