Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor
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Grand Centennial Smoke: History in Vapor" ties a common pleasure, tobacco smoke, to the nation's hundredth birthday, a pun the title makes plain. The print dates to 1876, when Philadelphia hosted the Centennial Exposition to mark 100 years since the Declaration of Independence, and firms such as Currier & Ives issued many inexpensive lithographs that caught the year's patriotic mood. Currier & Ives sold their work widely, so prints like this one reached middle-class homes and shops, not only collectors. The image is catalogued as number 2688 in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2688 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113886 |
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