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The Stride of a century – Vintage Print

The Stride of a century, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. — antique lithograph
The Stride of a century, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.. Antique lithograph from the Ballooning 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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Titled *The Stride of a Century*, this Currier & Ives lithograph uses Brother Jonathan, the early personification of the United States, to mark the nation's hundredth birthday. Published in New York around 1876, it belongs to the wave of popular prints that marked the Centennial Exhibition, which opened that year in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, to celebrate a century since the Declaration of Independence. Currier & Ives sold images like this cheaply to a broad public, so the print shows how commercial lithography turned a national anniversary into everyday imagery.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6307
SubjectsCentennial Exhibition--(1876 :--Philadelphia, Pa.) Brother Jonathan--1870-1880. Centennial celebrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,812 × 3,001 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183159

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