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"Ship-building for repairs" / Gillam., Political Cartoon
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Illustration shows Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, carrying a large book labeled "Navy Yard Investigations", confronting George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and John Roach, who are cowering at his approach outside the "U.S. Navy Ya[rd] Office"; Whitney is gesturing toward sailing ships that are being repaired, among those identified are "Shenandoah for Building $463,866 Repairs $906,481, Ossipee for Building $407,064 for Repairs $1,197,391, Kearsarge cost $286.918 Repairs $1,123,416, [and] Mohican Repairs cost $900,000".
Caption: Secretary Whitney "It seems to me, Gentlemen, that you have been repairing a damaged party out of a decaying navy."
Illus. from Puck, v. 17, no. 430, (1885 June 3), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 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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