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The Buffalo hunt: Surrounding the herd"" – Historic Print

The Buffalo hunt: Surrounding the herd"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
The Buffalo hunt: Surrounding the herd"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. Antique lithograph from the Buffalo 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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Step back in time with The Buffalo hunt: Surrounding the herd"", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This lithograph shows the moment riders close in on an entire herd of bison, as the title, *The Buffalo Hunt: Surrounding the Herd*, makes clear. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for popular views of American life, issued many scenes of the Plains that brought the West to buyers who had never seen it. The print was made in the decades when bison herds, once numbering in the tens of millions, were being rapidly reduced by commercial hunting and the spread of railroads. Images like this one came to stand for a frontier that was disappearing.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0813
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109418

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