A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks
More informationThe important landmarks that stood at this important Broadway intersection over time and by site
More informationA look at the technical processes along with the men and women who made all these cultural commodities in New York
More informationHannah Wirta Kinney
Claire McRee
Kelsey Brow
Andrew Gardner
Kirstin Purtich
Kirstin Purtich
Claire McRee
Laura Kelly-Bowditch
Kelsey Brow
Virginia Fister
Martina D’Amato
Zahava Friedman-Stadler
Virginia Spofford
Virginia Spofford
Martina D'Amato
Virginia Fister
Andrew Gardner
Fred Parsells & Bro’s Catalogue of Cheap Colored Pictures—New York, 18[64].
Currier & Ives catalogue
1864
Bound booklet
19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in. (50 × 65 cm)
Courtesy American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, BDSDS. 1864 F
Collectors and the public today value most highly Currier & Ives as the producer of wonderful city views or nostalgic country scenes. However, this nineteenth century advertisement of a firm that sold mostly Currier & Ives (if unnamed) inventory, suggests that the bulk of their stock consisted of colorful lithographs of cute children, “beautiful girls,” energetic sporting horses, and—in the midst of the Civil War—a large offering of stylized “Pictures of Famous Battles.”
— David Jaffee