The harvest moon – Historic Reproduction
![The harvest moon, [New York : Published by Currier & Ives, between 1860 and 1870] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/136432b86df3-L.webp)
(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: The harvest moon, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The harvest moon
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Few of the firm's landscapes pair farm work with night light as directly as this one, a moonlit harvest scene from the 1860s. Currier & Ives, the New York lithography firm, produced hand-colored views like this in large numbers, selling them inexpensively to a public that enjoyed images of rural life. The harvest moon is the full moon nearest the autumn equinox, and its unusually low, bright rise let farmers keep working into the evening, which tied the subject to the season's labor and abundance.
| Created / published | [New York : Published by Currier & Ives, between 1860 and 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1860-1870.Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 2746. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2977. |
| Subjects | Moonlight--1860-1870. Harvesting--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175347 |
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