Four Railroad / Train - Double sided Reprint N. Currier, Lith.

Description: Four Railroad and Trains! of Currier & Ives, N.Y. Reprints. Prairie Fires of the Great West the other side is American Railroad Scene The Route to California and the other side is The Great West The Railroad Suspension Bridge the other side The Night Express: The Start Through to the Pacific and the other side is Yosemite Valley - California. About: Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,[1] to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended public school until age fifteen, when he was apprenticed to the Boston printing firm of William and John Pendleton.The Pendletons were the first successful lithographers in the United States, lithography having only recently been invented in Europe.[2] Currier learned the process in their shop. In 1833, he subsequently went to work for M. E. D. Brown in Philadelphia, in 1833. The following year, in 1834, Currier moved to New York City, where he intended to start a new business with John Pendleton but Pendleton backed out, and the new firm became Currier & Stodart and lasted only one year. Currier & IvesIn 1835, Currier started his own lithographic business as an eponymous sole proprietorship, initially engaged in standard lithographic business of printing sheet music, letterheads, handbills, and other publishing-related products.However, he soon took his work in a new direction, creating pictures of current events. In late 1835, he issued a print illustrating a recent fire in New York City, Ruins of the Merchant's Exchange N.Y. after the Destructive Conflagration of Decbr 16 & 17, 1835 was published by the New York Sun, just four days after the fire, and was an early example of illustrated news.[2] In 1840, Currier began to move away from job printing and into independent print publishing. In that year, The Sun published his print Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat 'Lexington' in Long Island Sound on Monday Eveg Jany 13th 1840, by Which Melancholy Occurrence Over 100 Persons Perished, another documentation of a news event, three days after the disaster; the print sold thousands of copies.In 1850, James Ives went to work for Currier's firm as bookkeeper. Ives' skills as a businessman and marketer contributed significantly to the growth of the company; in 1857 he was made a full partner, and the company became known as Currier & Ives.Currier & Ives are best known as creators of popular art prints, such as Christmas scenes, landscapes, or depictions of Victorian urban sophistication; however, the firm also produced political cartoons and banners, significant historical scenes, and further illustrations of current events. Over the decades, the firm created roughly 7,500 images.[2]Currier retired from his firm in 1880 and turned the business over to his son Edward. I am selling my mother-in-law's large collection of vintage yarn. I am going to auction off the Acrylic but could include other fibers, if labels are not intact, I included skeins by color. I am a beginner in knitting and therefore do not know a lot about yarns but will try my best to answer your questions and supply details that you require to make a better purchase decision. If you have any suggestions on what else, I can include let me know. I will combine shipping. Visit my store and follow me, I have bins of bins of yarns, books, sewing items and more that I am adding to my store. Also, I am working with eBay Tech Support to add volume pricing to my store. Once the tool has been fixed and I can add to my store, I will send an update with a coupon to my followers. Happy sewing, knitting and day Dolores

Price: 25.86 USD

Location: Colfax, California

End Time: 2024-03-07T01:22:59.000Z

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