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The soldier's dream of home – Vintage Print

The soldier's dream of home, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865] — antique lithograph
The soldier's dream of home, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865]. 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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A Union soldier drifts into a daydream of home in this hand-colored lithograph, a subject that speaks to the homesickness many men felt in camp and on the march. Currier & Ives published it in New York sometime between 1861 and 1865, when the firm produced large numbers of sentimental scenes for a public eager to see the war through the lens of family and hearth. Prints like this were inexpensive, colored by hand after printing, and sold widely, so they show how northern civilians wanted to picture their soldiers.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand color.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5994. No. 200.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union. Soldiers--Union--1860-1870. Daydreaming--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,021 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166868

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