The bloomer costume – Historic Reproduction
![The bloomer costume, [New York] : N. Currier, 1851. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8be70cbcb55-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The bloomer costume. 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 bloomer costume
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Nathaniel Currier's 1851 lithograph takes its title from the bloomer, a costume of loose trousers gathered at the ankle under a knee-length skirt. Amelia Bloomer, a temperance and women's rights advocate in Seneca Falls, New York, promoted the outfit in her newspaper *The Lily* beginning in 1849, and the style drew wide attention in 1851. Currier, working under his own name before the firm became Currier & Ives, issued many prints like this one that treated women's dress reform as a comic spectacle. Viewers today can see both the popular fascination with the costume and the mockery it provoked.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1851. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0641. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,058 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174106 |
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