The cash system – Vintage Wall Art
![The cash system, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f43be2ba2d6-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.)
Description
This antique lithograph of The cash system brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The cash system
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Titled simply *The cash system*, this Currier & Ives lithograph takes an everyday store routine, the handling of payments across a sales counter, as its subject. Published in New York in 1877, it belongs to the firm's long run of popular prints that turned ordinary American commercial life into easily read scenes. In that period, large dry goods stores often used cash carriers, wire or pneumatic tube systems that sent a sale slip and payment from the counter to a central cashier, who returned the change the same way. The print is listed in the firm's catalog raisonné, which helps researchers place it among the company's other work.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174173 |
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