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Little Charlie – Vintage Print

Little Charlie, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. — antique lithograph
Little Charlie, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874.. Antique lithograph from the Family Life 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 images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Little Charlie. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Little Charlie" is a hand-colored lithograph issued by Currier & Ives in New York around 1874, and its title suggests a portrait of a young boy, though the record does not describe the scene itself. The firm produced large numbers of inexpensive colored prints, and sentimental pictures of children and family life were among its most popular subjects in the 1870s. Hand-coloring was often done in production lines, so impressions from the same stone can differ in tone. The print is cataloged as number 3874 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives work.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3874
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,111 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174868

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