In the hope that the American people may soon be, not merely united, but reconciled, I am, yours, Horace Greeley
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Print shows Horace Greeley, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right.Greeley was the Liberal Republican Party presidential candidate in the 1872 election.
Caption continues: Chappaqua, July 6, 1872.
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Stamped on verso: 2nd copy delivered to the Art Gallery Dec 1 1897.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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