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Currier & Ives (Nathaniel Currier & James M. Ives)

 
Currier & Ives

19th century American lithographic studio
(1824 - 1895)

Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) started lithography business in NYC in 1835; James Merritt (1824-1895) became a partner in 1857, after which all prints published by the firm bore the imprint of Currier & Ives.

4 objects

Lafayette at the Tomb of Washington

1845
lithograph on paper
Bequest of Charles Potter Kling
1935.152
 

A Presidential Reception in 1789

1876
lithograph on paper
Bequest of Miss Susan Dwight Bliss
1967.39.129
 

Reading the Scriptures

1824-1895
lithograph on paper
Gift of Elizabeth Muench
1991.66
 

A Midnight Race on the Mississippi

ca. 1850
hand colored lithograph on paper
Transferred from the College to Museum Collection, 2005
2005.18