The cash system – Historic Print
![The cash system, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ca/ca393d6abd25-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The cash system in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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*The Cash System* is a New York lithograph from 1877, issued under the Currier & Ives imprint and listed in the firm's catalog raisonné. Like much of the firm's output, it was made for a broad popular market that bought affordable prints for homes, shops, and offices. The year came just after the Panic of 1873 and during the long economic slump that followed, when tight credit made cash payment a pressing question for merchants and households alike. The record does not describe the scene, so the print is best read as a snapshot of that anxious period in American commerce.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,227 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174173 |
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