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A midnight race on the Mississippi

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Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4478

New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.

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lithographs hand colored midnight race midnight race mississippi prints 19th century popular graphic arts currier and ives industrial history steamer steam ship detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1890
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Currier & Ives.
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Currier and Ives

19th Century New York firm that produced prints from paintings by fine artists.
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