Sunday, November 11, 2012

Now You Know, Grover Cleveland Had Blue Eyes

The illustrated supplement issued on June 23, 1892 was eight pages in length, with color printing incorporated in the first and last pages. According to an inside article the new color press was capable of printing up to 4 of the 8 pages in color.
"In other words this press is capable of printing four pages of reading material and four pages of colored plates, or six pages of reading material and two pages of colored plates."
The front page of the issue featured a four-color (yellow, red, blue and black) portrait of Grover Cleveland, who had just received the Democratic Party's nomination for president. There's no artist credited on the portrait, which is fairly boiler-plate with the addition of color.
Front page, June 23, 1892, Illustrated Supplement of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper, first American color newspaper

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