AV 25 Currier and Ives Collection

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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Audiovisual Collections
AV 25
Currier & Ives Collection
( Ca. 1980 - 1987)
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
AV 25
Title:
Currier & Ives Collection
Creator:
Ohio Historical Society
Dates:
Ca. 1980 - 1987
Media:
Photographs, printed material, safety film negatives and transparencies
Quantity:
0.34 cubic feet
Location:
AV Cage 3/ 1/ 4/ A
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
During the mid to late nineteenth century the Currier & Ives printing firm was a well- known producer of lithographic prints. Common subjects for Currier & Ives prints were historical events such as the Civil and Revolutionary Wars, the North American landscape, rural life in the United States and wildlife.
Nathaniel Currier began his career in the printing business as an apprentice at a Boston printing firm in 1828. He opened his own printing firm in New York in 1835. James Ives joined the firm in 1852 as a bookkeeper. Ives was made a partner in 1857. They sold prints from their own New York shop and also distributed them through peddlers and country stores across the United States. Currier and Ives were both succeeded in the printing business by their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives. Both sons eventually sold their interest in the firm. In 1907 the last owner, Daniel W. Logan, closed the business and sold the printing equipment.
Sources:
Conningham, Frederic A. and Colin Simkin. Currier & Ives Prints, An Illustrated Check
List. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970. [ 763 C762c 1970]
Crouse, Russel. Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, A Note on their Life and Times. Garden City,
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1930. [ 763 C884m]