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    Currier and Ives was a New York City-based printmaking business operating from 1835 to 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier, the company designed and sold...
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    and financial side of the firm, Currier and Ives, which he co-managed with his business partner, Nathaniel Currier. Ives was born on March 5, 1824, in New...
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    movement. Between 1859 and 1860, immediately following the change of the name of the company from N. Currier to Currier and Ives, no prints are signed...
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    Nathaniel Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American lithographer. He headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives. Currier was born...
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    Darktown Comics is a series of Currier and Ives prints first produced in the 1870s that depicted racist vignettes ostensibly portraying a Black American...
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    company that would become Currier and Ives was founded in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier. It would grow to be the go-to publisher and manufacturer of mass produced...
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    as lithographic prints by Currier and Ives. Durrie was born in New Haven, Connecticut, one of six children born to John and Clarissa Clark Durrie, who...
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    joined Currier and Ives, working there until 1860. Maurer's series The Life of a Fireman (1854) was a popular lithography series produced for Currier and Ives...
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    Boston in 1859, and Currier and Ives of New York City about 1870, with a sample from the Arkansas Traveler tune. In addition to the painting and prints, the...
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    appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, and they supplied her with drawing materials. Moses and her husband began their married life in...
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