Dead broke – Vintage Print
![Dead broke, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1873. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/66c351c2b763-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: Dead broke, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Dead broke
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Titled *Dead broke*, this 1873 lithograph uses a slang phrase meaning to have no money at all, and the title hints at the ruin that heavy drinking could bring. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued it, produced inexpensive lithographs in large numbers for a mass market, and its genre scenes of saloons, drinking and temperance were popular subjects. The print appears as number 1594 in *Currier & Ives: A catalog Raisonné*, compiled by Gale Research, a standard reference for tracing the firm's output.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1873. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1594. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,110 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174340 |
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