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Beach snipe shooting – Historic Reproduction

Beach snipe shooting, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869. — antique lithograph
Beach snipe shooting, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869.. 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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Shore hunting for snipe and other small shorebirds was a favorite pastime along the Atlantic coast, and this 1869 lithograph shows sportsmen working the sand for birds prized as game. The New York firm of Currier & Ives produced hundreds of sporting and rural scenes for a public eager for outdoor subjects, and prints like this one hung in parlors, taverns, and sporting rooms. Today the image offers a window onto recreational gunning before federal laws such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 curbed the hunting of shorebirds.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0496.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110163

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