Mishlers Garden (Philadelphia: R. F. Reynolds, ca. 1874) Crayon lithograph, tinted with three stones. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

 

The process of printing this advertisement for the medicinal garden of patent medicine dealer Benjamin Mishler required three tint stones. Such multi-tinted lithographs can also be described as chromolithographs by virtue of the use of three color stones in their production.

 

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