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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Frances "Fanny" Palmer (section Currier and Ives)
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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Darktown Comics (section Marriage and courting)
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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George Henry Durrie (section Currier and Ives)
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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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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The Drunkard's Progress (section Reception and legacy)
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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Grandma Moses (section Marriage and children)
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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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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complexities of Black people across the diaspora. Starting in the 1870s Currier and Ives produced a series of lithographs called Darktown Comics. Prominent...
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