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At the fair grounds – Antique Print

At the fair grounds, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890. — antique lithograph
At the fair grounds, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890.. 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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Few places captured the American countryside of the late nineteenth century as vividly as the fairground, and this 1890 lithograph takes that setting as its subject. The title, *At the Fair Grounds*, points to the county and state fairs where crowds gathered for exhibitions, livestock, and racing. Currier & Ives of New York was known for inexpensive, colorful lithographs that brought rural and sporting life into homes across the country. The print is catalogued in the firm's raisonné as number 0327, and it shows how popular prints portrayed leisure in the years before the automobile began to change such gatherings.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1890.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0327.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,074 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111100

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