During its life from 1834 to 1907, Currier & Ives, the New York-based firm that’s still the best-known printmaking name in America, created more than 7,000 images. When we summon up an idea of ...

Currier & Ives' America: From a Young Nation to a Great Power Walton Rawls. Abbeville, $45 (488p) ISBN 978-0-7892-1258-0. This hefty collection, originally published in 1979, boasts more than 300 ...

Because of Currier and Ives, mid-19th-century America was documented more completely than any other time and place in history before the widespread use of photography.

Ask almost anyone to name the most popular printmakers in America and chances are they’ll say Currier & Ives. The famous Manhattan lithograph firm, founded in 1835, became a household name for ...

Currier and Ives is known for its iconic images of 19th-century America. The printing firm produced popular lithographs that captured scenes of everyday life, including Christmas sleigh rides and ...

A new edition of Currier & Ives’ America: From a Young Nation to a Great Power by Walton Rawls—in which these images can be found—will be available this March. Grand National Democratic Banner.

The Surprise of Currier & Ives reveals the other side of the printmakers' commonly recognized nostalgic and homey portraits of New England. As the firm grew, they delved into areas such as ...

In their half-century as America's greatest printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced some 8,000 lithographs, of which some 7,500 survive as nostalgic relics of 19th-Century ...

Currier and Ives is known for its iconic images of 19th-century America. The printing firm produced popular lithographs that captured scenes of everyday life, including Christmas sleigh rides and ...