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The death of Minnehaha – Historic Print

The death of Minnehaha, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1867. — antique lithograph
The death of Minnehaha, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1867.. 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The death of Minnehaha. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The subject is Minnehaha, or "Laughing Water," the wife of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem *The Song of Hiawatha*, here shown in the scene of her death during the famine winter the poem describes. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive hand-colored lithographs to a wide public, issued a number of scenes from the poem in the 1860s. This 1867 print turns a sentimental passage into an image for the home, and it reflects how romantic the public's picture of Native life was at the time.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1867.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand colored.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1626.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106174

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