Mama's darlings – 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: Mama's darlings, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Currier & Ives published "Mama's Darlings" in New York around 1877, and the hand-coloring that a lithograph of this kind received was done by workers who tinted each impression by hand. The title points to the sentimental subject that made the firm's domestic scenes so popular: a mother and her young children presented as the center of the household. Prints like this were sold cheaply and widely, so they offer a useful view of how middle-class American families were pictured in the later nineteenth century. Its catalog entry in the Library of Congress collection places it among the firm's hand-colored lithographs from the 1870s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
|---|---|
| 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. 4277 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,123 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174911 |
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