Camping out: A life in the woods for me"" – Vintage Print
![Camping out: A life in the woods for me"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/53/53ca0a87915c-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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Camping out: A life in the woods for me"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Camping out: A life in the woods for me""
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Few Currier & Ives prints of the 1870s treat the outdoors as a holiday, but this 1879 lithograph, titled "Camping out: A life in the woods for me," does. The New York firm produced inexpensive lithographs for a broad public, and by the late 1870s many city dwellers were heading into the woods for weekends and summers. Recreational camping had grown popular after the Civil War, helped along by William H. H. Murray's 1869 book on camp life in the Adirondacks. The title's cheerful sentiment captures that appeal: a rustic escape from office and city life.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0866. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174156 |
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