American homestead spring – Historic Print
![American homestead spring, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/763f27b86b24-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: American homestead spring, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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American homestead spring
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Spring opens the American Homestead series, a set of Currier & Ives lithographs that presented farm life across the seasons. Published in New York in 1869, this hand-colored sheet came from a firm that sold inexpensive images to a broad public, so its audience reached well beyond the cities where the company worked. Stencil coloring added the color to each impression, and that handwork gave the prints their warm, finished look. Viewers of the period often hung such scenes in parlors and kitchens as a picture of rural domestic life.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0183. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157969 |
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