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Papa's new hat – Historic Reproduction

Papa's new hat, New York : Published by N. Currier or Currier & Ives, [between 1835 and 1907]. — antique lithograph
Papa's new hat, New York : Published by N. Currier or Currier & Ives, [between 1835 and 1907].. 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Papa's new hat in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Papa's new hat is a family-life genre scene whose title points to a small domestic moment built around a father's new hat and the children reacting to it. Like much of the firm's output, it was published in New York by Currier & Ives, the lithographic house that sold hand-colored sheets to a broad middle-class public from the 1830s into the early 1900s. Its catalog number, 5092, in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné, places it among the many sentimental and humorous scenes of home life that made the firm's prints familiar in American parlors.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier or Currier & Ives, [between 1835 and 1907].
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1830-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5092
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,072 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175007

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