Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor – Historic Print
(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 images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor
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The title, "Grand centennial smoke: history in vapor," suggests a humorous take on the nation's past dissolving into tobacco smoke. Currier & Ives published it around 1876, when the firm issued many prints tied to the country's 100th anniversary and to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The firm built its business on inexpensive, topical lithographs for a broad public, and this print shows how readily commercial printmakers turned a national milestone into popular entertainment.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2688 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,376 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113886 |
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