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Racquet River--Adirondacks"" – Historic Reproduction

Racquet River--Adirondacks"", New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1840 and 1880] — antique lithograph
Racquet River--Adirondacks"", New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1840 and 1880]. Antique lithograph from the Adirondacks 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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Racquet River--Adirondacks"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Racquet River, a stream in the northern Adirondacks, is the subject here, shown with a fishing scene that reflects the sport's appeal in the region. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph sometime between 1840 and 1880, a period when the Adirondack woods were drawing sportsmen and summer visitors seeking clear water and wild country. The firm's landscape prints brought such scenes of American places into middle-class parlors, so the picture doubles as a record of how people then imagined the Adirondacks: as a retreat for angling and quiet escape.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1840 and 1880]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLandscape prints 1840-1880.Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5475
SubjectsRivers--New York (State)--1840-1880. Fishing--New York (State)--1840-1880. Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--1840-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175046

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