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The snow-shoe dance: to thank the great spirit for the first appearance of snow – Historic Print

The snow-shoe dance: to thank the great spirit for the first appearance of snow, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
The snow-shoe dance: to thank the great spirit for the first appearance of snow, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures The snow-shoe dance: to thank the great spirit for the first appearance of snow in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A dance of thanks to the Great Spirit for the season's first snowfall gives this print a more specific subject than most in the Everyday Life group. George Catlin spent much of the 1830s recording Native peoples of the American interior, painting ceremonies and daily life that he feared settler expansion would erase. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for mass-market lithographs, later issued chromolithographic reproductions of Catlin's work for a middle-class public curious about frontier life. The print is therefore a record shaped by two hands: the painter's firsthand observation and the publisher's color and commercial purpose.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreChromolithographs 1850-1910.
NotesArtist: George Catlin. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5977
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175377

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