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Uncle Sam's dream of conquest and carnage - caused by reading the Jingo newspapers Keppler

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Uncle Sam's dream of conquest and carnage - caused by reading the Jingo newspapers Keppler

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Print shows Uncle Sam asleep in a chair with a large eagle perched on a stand next to him; he is dreaming of conquests and annexations, asserting his "Monroe Doctrine" rights, becoming master of the seas, putting John Bull in his place, and building "formidable and invulnerable coast defenses"; on the floor by the chair are jingoistic and yellow journalism newspapers.

Caption: A hard and hopless game for Davy.
Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 975, (1895 November 13), centerfold.
Copyright 1895 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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