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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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    when published as a chromolithograph by Currier and Ives. After the end of Prohibition in 1933, Currier and Ives licensed the image to the makers of Southern...
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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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    Cultural legacy of Mazeppa (category Horses in film and television)
    (circa 1833, Tate and in 1842 "MAZEPPA"[citation needed]. In 1846, the American lithographer Nathaniel Currier, of Currier and Ives, prepared four plates...
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    was unique enough that the horse became a celebrity. Currier and Ives did a series of prints and the horse's image was used to advertise products by the...
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    borough of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, and is connected to Staten Island by way...
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  • a 900-acre dairy farm and estate since the 1700s. Through his mother, Gould was related to Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives fame. He had a twin brother...
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    boy, Booth was athletic and popular, and he became skilled at horsemanship and fencing. He attended the Bel Air Academy and was an indifferent student...
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    New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed...
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  • Ives is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Alice Emma Ives (1876–1930), American dramatist, journalist Burl Ives (1909–1995)...
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    Jefferson Davis (category American prisoners and detainees)
    as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives...
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    Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811 – January 17, 1874) were Siamese (Thai)-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression...
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    Arkansas Traveler (honorary title) (category State awards and decorations of the United States)
    Edward Payson Washbourne which depicts the event. Later, in 1870, Currier and Ives created a lithograph of the famous painting. Faulkner was also known...
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    the subject of at least seven prints by Currier and Ives, and Neale and Pate, and others. The Currier and Ives print depicts him shortly after being wounded...
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    President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Lincoln was a member of a large and wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family. She was well educated. Born Mary Ann...
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    an open palm, and is symbolic of charity, given from the heart. It is an easily recognizable symbol in the Northeastern United States and used by the Shakers...
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    history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America. Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic...
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    nacional en Ecuador" (PDF). Escenarios Alternativos. Retrieved 21 March 2014. Anders Lundebeck in Joséphine av Sverige-Norge Libris #2179964 p. 402 Windolph...
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    John Brown (abolitionist) (category American Calvinist and Reformed Christians)
    century is a Currier and Ives print, based on a lost painting by Louis Ransom. It portrays Brown as a Christ-like figure. The "Virgin and Child" typically...
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  • what now is North Carolina and South Carolina, United States. It encompasses the areas currently known as Lancaster, Union and Mecklenburg counties. The...
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    Richmond-based punk band Love Roses features an image of the famous Currier and Ives print of the city burning as the cover art for their album A New Reason...
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    Bagatelle (section UK and US)
    Dictionary. Ives, Currier and (1864). "A little game of bagatelle, between Old Abe the rail splitter & Little Mac the gunboat general". Currier and Ives. unknown...
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