Household treasures – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Household treasures, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Titled *Household treasures*, this hand-colored lithograph was published in New York around 1874 by Currier & Ives, the firm that turned sentimental scenes of home and childhood into affordable pictures for American parlors. Its title points to the domestic theme that drew the firm's buyers, who hung such sheets in sitting rooms and nurseries. Color was added by hand, so impressions from the same stone could differ in tone. The image is listed as number 3201 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, a standard reference for dating and identifying the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3201 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,053 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174722 |
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