Currier and Ives' America: A Panorama of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Scene

Unpaginated. Full color prints with an introduction and commentary by the editor. Currier and Ives made a name for themselves as America's premier printers of iconic American images. Collected here are stunning images reprinted from the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives (lithography by Livermore and Knight Co.). Included are prints of westward expansion, American farms, clipper ships, railroads, the Mississippi River, rural scenes of maple sugaring, cider making, and mills, firemen (with some wonderful images of early pump cars), country life, urban scenes, hunting, fishing, horse races, winter scenes, the four seasons, literary landmarks, political figures, and animals.