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I feed you all! – Vintage Wall Art

I feed you all!, [Milwaukee, Wisc.] : Lith by American Oleograph Co., Milwaukee, c1875. — antique lithograph
I feed you all!, [Milwaukee, Wisc.] : Lith by American Oleograph Co., Milwaukee, c1875.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: I feed you all!, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Its title, "I feed you all!", is the most distinctive thing about this color lithograph, which the American Oleograph Company of Milwaukee printed around 1875 and entered for copyright in Washington that year. The firm was one of several in the Midwest that produced inexpensive chromolithographs after the Civil War, when colored prints like this were sold to ordinary households and hung on parlor and kitchen walls. Such prints were often called oleographs because they imitated the look of oil paintings, and their cheerful sentiments made them popular with buyers. The record says little more about the scene, so its subject is best read through the title and the commercial world that produced it.

Created / published[Milwaukee, Wisc.] : Lith by American Oleograph Co., Milwaukee, c1875.
Medium1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in colors ; 42 x 55.7 cm (image)
Genre1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall
NotesTitle from item. Entered ... 1875 by American Oleograph Co. ... Washington
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109800

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