Son and daughter of temperance: E.L. Snow, social union – Vintage 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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Son and daughter of temperance: E.L. Snow, social union
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The title pairs "Son and daughter of temperance" with the names E.L. Snow and the Social Union, which points to a specific temperance society rather than a general moral theme. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1850, before his partnership with James Merritt Ives, and the hand-coloring was added by hand, which made such prints costlier than plain black-and-white work. The Sons of Temperance, founded in New York in 1842, and its women's counterparts drew large memberships in this period, and prints like this one served as both sentiment and promotion for the cause. The Gale Research catalog raisonné lists it as number 6011.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1850. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6011 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,061 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175116 |
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