"Louis Prang was born in Breslau, Prussia and came to the United States in 1850. He set up a lithograph firm with a partner and then went on his own in 1860. Prang became America's preeminent chromolithographer during the last decades of the 19th century."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 22
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Paper label for cotton packaging for Mount Vernon Superior Cotton; lithographed portrait of Honr. Ed. Everett of Mass. on label; label printed in black and gold