American homestead spring – Historic Print
![American homestead spring, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ce/ce656e58cc91-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.)
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Step back in time with American homestead spring, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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American homestead spring
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Most of the Currier & Ives seasonal prints show farm life at a distance, but this one focuses on the homestead itself as the center of the spring scene. Issued in New York in 1869, it is a hand-colored lithograph, one of the many sheets the firm produced for a middle-class public that bought affordable pictures of rural domestic life. The firm's prints were often sold through shops and by subscription, and their bright color was added by hand, so no two copies were exactly alike. The record cites the Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's output, which is a useful starting point for anyone tracing the series.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0183. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217315 |
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