...Graphite AXl Grease... – Antique Wall Art
(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 color poster for Graphite AXle Grease, dated 1870, stands out in this group because it is an advertisement rather than a portrait. Its caption card credits a New York firm whose name is partly illegible in the record, and the details are marked unverified. Around this time, color posters were often made by chromolithography, a process that let printers reproduce bold, multicolored designs in quantity. Axle grease was a practical necessity for wagons and early railway cars, which relied on greased axles to turn freely, so posters like this one aimed to persuade mechanics, carriage makers, and businesses to buy the product.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 99 x 77 cm. |
| Subjects | Mnaufactured by American G[---]ite Co., New York. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,202 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172620 |
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