The Western farmers home – 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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This antique lithograph of The Western farmers home brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Western farmers home
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Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive color lithographs to a broad public, issued this print around 1871 under the title "The Western Farmers Home." Its subject is the frontier homestead rather than the settled farm of the East, a theme that suited the firm's audience of families who read about westward migration and dreamed of land beyond the older states. Printed as a lithograph, the image was meant to be hung on a parlor wall and read as an idealized picture of rural prosperity. Collectors today value Currier & Ives work for the way it preserves popular views of American farm life in the decade after the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7150 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111230 |
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