Currier & Ives
 1876 print of imagined scene for Declaration Centennial, from LC
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- 1834 litho co. founded by Nathaniel Currier
- 1852 partnership with James Ives
- mass-produced 3 lithographic prints per week priced from $4 to 15 cents
- new steel plates replaced less durable copper lithographs
- themes of progress, technology, heroes, Protestant ethic
- rural small town life, sex roles idealized
- Autumn in New England 1866
- American Farm Scenes series
- Winter Road 1853, Ice Fishing 1856
- At Home 1850, The Kiss 1850
- animals idealized in Horse Race, Winter Road
- Ladder of Fortune 1850
- Tree of Death, Tree of Life 1850
- birdseye views of towns; Wagons west 1860
- Erie railroad poster 1860
- American heroes: Washington and Lincoln 1865
- The "Lightning Express" Trains: Leaving the Junction 1860 picture from Currier & Ives Foundation
- Western expansion: Currier & Ives Railroad Lithographs: Westward the Empire, 1870-1871
- Currier & Ives previous exhibit from City Museum of New York
revised 8/22/05 by Steven Schoenherr at the University of San Diego | American Renaissance | Nationalizing Power