The glad Thanksgiving of some personages from Puck's pages / F. Opper.
Summary
Print shows a vignette cartoon with Uncle Sam sitting in a chair, enjoying a good cigar and the latest issue of PUCK magazine; the surrounding vignettes, feature PUCK characters who are thankful that, despite setbacks, they each have something this year to be thankful for, such as the very "British" game of golf; as police corruption surfaces, lower ranking officers are promoted; a turkey was procured without repercussion; the insurance benefits of three fires outweigh the losses of two failures; the mother-in-law has chosen elsewhere to observe the holiday; a meal is had for the asking; the Japanese may be winning the war, but they are not pushing the Chinese out of the laundry business; and football injuries are not severe enough to prevent playing in the big game.
Illus. from Puck, v. 36, no. 925, (1894 November 28), centerfold.
Copyright 1894 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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