The tree of temperance – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The tree of temperance. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1872, this hand-colored lithograph is titled "The tree of temperance" and is listed as no. 6623 in the firm's catalog raisonné. Currier & Ives sold inexpensive colored prints to a broad public, and temperance was one of the moral themes it returned to, usually in allegorical form. By the early 1870s the temperance movement had grown into a national cause, with churches and reform societies urging Americans to give up alcohol. Pictures like this one used symbolism to make that message easy to take in at home.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6623 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175185 |
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