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The custom-house code of morals under our beautiful tariff system / F. Opper.
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Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with William Dorsheimer seated at center in the "Office of the U.S. District Attorney and Editorial Rooms of the New York Star" where he receives a letter from "Daniel Manning Sec'y Treas." asking him "to stop the acceptance of bribes by the employees of the Custom House, without delay". The surrounding cartoons all show instances of Custom officials being offered bribes by travelers returning from abroad; including a "sketch by our special artist", i.e., Puck, showing a custom official headed home, laden with merchandise in the form of bribes.
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 449, (1885 October 14), 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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