God bless our school – Antique 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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God bless our school 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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Among the many sentimental scenes that Currier & Ives sold, this lithograph stands out for its title, "God bless our school," which asks a blessing on an institution rather than on a family or a landscape. The New York firm, then at 125 Nassau Street, published it around 1874, the year it was entered for copyright at the Library of Congress. Public schooling was expanding across the country in the 1870s, and the firm's hand-colored lithographs found a ready market among families who wanted images of home, faith and learning. The print is listed in Gale's catalog raisonné of the firm's work and was later shown in the Cantor Center's exhibition *American ABC*.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | 2006." |
| Notes | 7706E U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874 by Currier & Ives, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2598 Exhibited: American ABC" at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts |
| Subjects | History--United States--1870-1880. Commemoration--United States--1870-1880. Education--United States--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,269 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174567 |
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