"The tribute to the Minotaur" - the interests of all other states sacrificed to the protection monster of Pennsylvania / Gillam with apologies to A. Gendron.
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Illustration shows Samuel J. Randall seated at one end of a gondola and William D. Kelley standing at the other end calling out "to the Protection Minotaur of Pennsylvania", between them are several maiden women labeled "Louisiana, California, Illinois, New York, Georgia, Mass, [and] Indiana" who are to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. A banner hanging on the wall states "Pennsylvania First Last and All the Time". At the opening in the wall is a relief of a minotaur's head labeled "Pennsylvania". After a painting by Ernest Augustin Gendron titled "The Tribute to the Minotaur".
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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